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OpenStudy (anonymous):

College Algebra: I'm reviewing for my Final coming up and I need tons of help. Some of the math problems I'm going through are not making sense. The math problem will be in the comments:

OpenStudy (anonymous):

\[\frac{ x }{ x-3 }=\frac{ 3 }{ x-3 }+9\]

OpenStudy (anonymous):

@TheSmartOne Believe you can help? I keep getting the answer 3, but apparently the answer is no solution...

OpenStudy (anonymous):

By the way, if I take a while to respond, it's because this page is not working for me today. If I refresh, it will take 5 minutes or more to actually show everything.

TheSmartOne (thesmartone):

If it is 3 then it will be undefined so it ahs to be no solution

OpenStudy (anonymous):

But I got x=3. How is that undefined? It's a real number

TheSmartOne (thesmartone):

Ok so you got that. Now plug it in. If the denominator equals to 0 then it means the fraction is undefined and we can't solve it. And thus meaning no solution.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Ohhh, alright. I didn't plug it back in. I checked and you're right. I see why it's undefined. :)

TheSmartOne (thesmartone):

No problem :)

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