[{"Name":"Introduction","TopicPlaylistFirstVideoID":0,"Duration":null,"Videos":[{"Watched":false,"Name":"Introduction","Duration":"7m 57s","ChapterTopicVideoID":4931,"CourseChapterTopicPlaylistID":56123,"HasSubtitles":true,"ThumbnailPath":"https://www.proprep.com/Images/Videos_Thumbnails/4931.jpeg","UploadDate":"2021-08-22T09:59:48.9970000","DurationForVideoObject":"PT7M57S","Description":null,"VideoComments":[],"Subtitles":[{"Start":"00:00.000 ","End":"00:04.050","Text":"I\u0027m going to be introducing equations in college algebra."},{"Start":"00:04.050 ","End":"00:06.915","Text":"I\u0027d like to start with an informal introduction."},{"Start":"00:06.915 ","End":"00:08.880","Text":"I\u0027m not going to define what an equation is."},{"Start":"00:08.880 ","End":"00:10.635","Text":"I\u0027ll just show you a few examples."},{"Start":"00:10.635 ","End":"00:17.505","Text":"Let\u0027s start straight away with an example of an equation, x+2=5."},{"Start":"00:17.505 ","End":"00:20.100","Text":"Notice that it has an equal sign in it."},{"Start":"00:20.100 ","End":"00:23.205","Text":"That\u0027s very important for an equation to have an equality."},{"Start":"00:23.205 ","End":"00:25.635","Text":"Notice that there\u0027s a letter in it."},{"Start":"00:25.635 ","End":"00:27.870","Text":"It\u0027s not just numbers."},{"Start":"00:27.870 ","End":"00:30.995","Text":"This letter is a variable or an unknown,"},{"Start":"00:30.995 ","End":"00:34.805","Text":"and x is a very common letter in algebra."},{"Start":"00:34.805 ","End":"00:37.385","Text":"X is a favorite variable name."},{"Start":"00:37.385 ","End":"00:40.910","Text":"The idea of an equation usually is to solve it."},{"Start":"00:40.910 ","End":"00:42.500","Text":"What does it mean to solve it?"},{"Start":"00:42.500 ","End":"00:47.270","Text":"It means to find what value of x will make this true."},{"Start":"00:47.270 ","End":"00:49.550","Text":"In other words, what can I put instead of x?"},{"Start":"00:49.550 ","End":"00:53.135","Text":"I\u0027d like to substitute x equals something to make it true."},{"Start":"00:53.135 ","End":"00:59.360","Text":"Now, I could do it by guesswork and let\u0027s say I try x=1."},{"Start":"00:59.360 ","End":"01:04.115","Text":"Then I put x=1 and I get 1+2=5."},{"Start":"01:04.115 ","End":"01:08.155","Text":"That\u0027s false. Then I could try x=2."},{"Start":"01:08.155 ","End":"01:10.900","Text":"I would get 2+2=5."},{"Start":"01:10.900 ","End":"01:15.535","Text":"Still wrong. Then I could try x=3,"},{"Start":"01:15.535 ","End":"01:17.745","Text":"and I\u0027d get 3+2=5."},{"Start":"01:17.745 ","End":"01:21.931","Text":"Yes, it happens to be true, bingo."},{"Start":"01:21.931 ","End":"01:24.019","Text":"So x=3 is the solution."},{"Start":"01:24.019 ","End":"01:26.240","Text":"Of course, we\u0027re not going to be doing it by guesswork,"},{"Start":"01:26.240 ","End":"01:27.865","Text":"but I just wanted to show you,"},{"Start":"01:27.865 ","End":"01:32.240","Text":"this actually leads to a more formal definition of what is a solution."},{"Start":"01:32.240 ","End":"01:35.675","Text":"It\u0027s a value that when you substitute it for the variable,"},{"Start":"01:35.675 ","End":"01:38.840","Text":"gives you a true statement,"},{"Start":"01:38.840 ","End":"01:42.050","Text":"a true expression, rather than one that\u0027s false."},{"Start":"01:42.050 ","End":"01:44.210","Text":"If I substitute anything other than 3,"},{"Start":"01:44.210 ","End":"01:45.440","Text":"I\u0027ll get something that\u0027s false."},{"Start":"01:45.440 ","End":"01:48.140","Text":"I could try x=4, 4+2=5."},{"Start":"01:48.140 ","End":"01:54.395","Text":"No. We want to find out what values of x we can substitute to make this thing true."},{"Start":"01:54.395 ","End":"01:55.910","Text":"That\u0027s the first example."},{"Start":"01:55.910 ","End":"01:58.325","Text":"I\u0027ll just give you another example."},{"Start":"01:58.325 ","End":"02:04.170","Text":"Suppose I take 2x+3=11."},{"Start":"02:05.300 ","End":"02:09.540","Text":"Now 2x, as you remember, means 2*x."},{"Start":"02:09.540 ","End":"02:12.600","Text":"Once again, I could try substituting x=1."},{"Start":"02:12.600 ","End":"02:17.705","Text":"I\u0027d get 2*1+3=5, it wouldn\u0027t work."},{"Start":"02:17.705 ","End":"02:21.350","Text":"Finally, I\u0027d hit upon x=4."},{"Start":"02:21.350 ","End":"02:23.510","Text":"If I tried x=4,"},{"Start":"02:23.510 ","End":"02:28.770","Text":"I\u0027d get 2*4+3 really is equal to 11."},{"Start":"02:28.770 ","End":"02:32.055","Text":"Because 2*4 is 8 plus 3 is 11 so that works."},{"Start":"02:32.055 ","End":"02:34.925","Text":"We would say that x=4 is a solution."},{"Start":"02:34.925 ","End":"02:37.790","Text":"But for example, x=1 is not a solution,"},{"Start":"02:37.790 ","End":"02:41.270","Text":"because 2*1+3 is not equal to 11."},{"Start":"02:41.270 ","End":"02:44.345","Text":"This is a general idea of equations."},{"Start":"02:44.345 ","End":"02:51.320","Text":"Now, I want to show you an example of an equation that has more than one solution."},{"Start":"02:51.320 ","End":"02:58.580","Text":"Suppose I said, I want x such that x^2=9."},{"Start":"02:58.580 ","End":"03:02.105","Text":"This time I have an x squared in the equation."},{"Start":"03:02.105 ","End":"03:06.305","Text":"Notice that if I put x=3,"},{"Start":"03:06.305 ","End":"03:07.940","Text":"I will get a solution."},{"Start":"03:07.940 ","End":"03:10.265","Text":"Because if I substitute it,"},{"Start":"03:10.265 ","End":"03:12.350","Text":"I get 3^2=9,"},{"Start":"03:12.350 ","End":"03:13.970","Text":"which is a true statement."},{"Start":"03:13.970 ","End":"03:16.270","Text":"If I put, for example,"},{"Start":"03:16.270 ","End":"03:19.260","Text":"x=2, 2^2=9,"},{"Start":"03:19.260 ","End":"03:21.075","Text":"no, that\u0027s not a true equation."},{"Start":"03:21.075 ","End":"03:22.635","Text":"2 is not a solution,"},{"Start":"03:22.635 ","End":"03:24.485","Text":"3 is a solution."},{"Start":"03:24.485 ","End":"03:28.895","Text":"But what happens if I substitute x=-3?"},{"Start":"03:28.895 ","End":"03:33.390","Text":"I\u0027ll get -3^2=9. I ask myself,"},{"Start":"03:33.390 ","End":"03:35.235","Text":"is this a true statement?"},{"Start":"03:35.235 ","End":"03:36.910","Text":"The answer is, yes,"},{"Start":"03:36.910 ","End":"03:40.085","Text":"because you learned that minus times minus is plus."},{"Start":"03:40.085 ","End":"03:43.700","Text":"Sometimes an equation can have more than one solution."},{"Start":"03:43.700 ","End":"03:47.150","Text":"Carrying on this idea of a square,"},{"Start":"03:47.150 ","End":"03:53.390","Text":"I could ask x^2=-4 as another equation."},{"Start":"03:53.390 ","End":"03:55.670","Text":"In this case, I can guess all I want."},{"Start":"03:55.670 ","End":"03:57.725","Text":"I can try 0, I can try 1."},{"Start":"03:57.725 ","End":"04:01.380","Text":"Nothing will work. Well,"},{"Start":"04:01.380 ","End":"04:03.300","Text":"let\u0027s just try. Suppose I took x=0."},{"Start":"04:03.300 ","End":"04:06.390","Text":"0^2, is that equal to -4?"},{"Start":"04:06.390 ","End":"04:09.690","Text":"No. Try x=2. 2^2,"},{"Start":"04:09.690 ","End":"04:11.475","Text":"is that equal to -4?"},{"Start":"04:11.475 ","End":"04:15.555","Text":"No. You quickly see that 0^2 or 2^2,"},{"Start":"04:15.555 ","End":"04:16.770","Text":"whatever I square,"},{"Start":"04:16.770 ","End":"04:18.720","Text":"I\u0027ll never get a negative number."},{"Start":"04:18.720 ","End":"04:22.570","Text":"This time the equation has no solution."},{"Start":"04:22.570 ","End":"04:24.620","Text":"That\u0027s also possible."},{"Start":"04:24.620 ","End":"04:26.990","Text":"Sometimes an equation has one solution."},{"Start":"04:26.990 ","End":"04:28.700","Text":"Sometimes it has more than one solution."},{"Start":"04:28.700 ","End":"04:30.740","Text":"Sometimes it has no solution."},{"Start":"04:30.740 ","End":"04:33.680","Text":"All these things are possible with an equation."},{"Start":"04:33.680 ","End":"04:38.450","Text":"Just to give you one more example of crazy things that can happen."},{"Start":"04:38.450 ","End":"04:40.685","Text":"Suppose I took the example,"},{"Start":"04:40.685 ","End":"04:47.810","Text":"I\u0027ll write it over here, x+x=2x. I just had an idea."},{"Start":"04:47.810 ","End":"04:52.085","Text":"Why don\u0027t I just highlight all the equations so we can see examples of equations?"},{"Start":"04:52.085 ","End":"04:54.275","Text":"This was our first example."},{"Start":"04:54.275 ","End":"04:56.365","Text":"This was our second example."},{"Start":"04:56.365 ","End":"04:58.035","Text":"Third, fourth,"},{"Start":"04:58.035 ","End":"04:59.655","Text":"and now this example."},{"Start":"04:59.655 ","End":"05:03.050","Text":"We\u0027ve seen quite a lot of equations and they all have an equal sign in them."},{"Start":"05:03.050 ","End":"05:04.850","Text":"That\u0027s the important thing."},{"Start":"05:04.850 ","End":"05:06.620","Text":"I\u0027m just using x,"},{"Start":"05:06.620 ","End":"05:08.480","Text":"though any other letter could\u0027ve done,"},{"Start":"05:08.480 ","End":"05:10.835","Text":"but x as I said, is very popular."},{"Start":"05:10.835 ","End":"05:12.545","Text":"Back to this one."},{"Start":"05:12.545 ","End":"05:18.245","Text":"What would I get if I substituted x=5, for example?"},{"Start":"05:18.245 ","End":"05:19.820","Text":"I would get 5+5=2(5)."},{"Start":"05:19.820 ","End":"05:24.980","Text":"2(5) is 10,"},{"Start":"05:24.980 ","End":"05:28.264","Text":"and 5 plus 5 is 10. x=5 is a solution."},{"Start":"05:28.264 ","End":"05:31.010","Text":"But you quickly realize that almost anything,"},{"Start":"05:31.010 ","End":"05:33.320","Text":"not almost anything, anything I try as x,"},{"Start":"05:33.320 ","End":"05:35.690","Text":"I could try x=11,"},{"Start":"05:35.690 ","End":"05:40.025","Text":"and I\u0027d get 11+11 equals 2(11)."},{"Start":"05:40.025 ","End":"05:41.990","Text":"Is this a true statement?"},{"Start":"05:41.990 ","End":"05:44.555","Text":"The answer is yes so this is a solution."},{"Start":"05:44.555 ","End":"05:46.940","Text":"In fact, every x is a solution,"},{"Start":"05:46.940 ","End":"05:55.195","Text":"and I have an infinite number of solutions so every number is a solution."},{"Start":"05:55.195 ","End":"05:57.510","Text":"Let me rephrase that."},{"Start":"05:57.510 ","End":"05:59.400","Text":"Let\u0027s say every x is a solution."},{"Start":"05:59.400 ","End":"06:01.530","Text":"Whatever value I put for x is a solution."},{"Start":"06:01.530 ","End":"06:03.090","Text":"Here\u0027s a few examples."},{"Start":"06:03.090 ","End":"06:06.380","Text":"We can also have more than one variable."},{"Start":"06:06.380 ","End":"06:09.425","Text":"Let me give an example of that."},{"Start":"06:09.425 ","End":"06:16.760","Text":"I could take something like x+y=10."},{"Start":"06:16.760 ","End":"06:18.890","Text":"That\u0027s an equation that has two variables,"},{"Start":"06:18.890 ","End":"06:23.630","Text":"x and y. I\u0027ll give you an example of what I mean by a solution."},{"Start":"06:23.630 ","End":"06:28.265","Text":"A solution has to be a value of x and a value of y."},{"Start":"06:28.265 ","End":"06:29.900","Text":"Let me give an example."},{"Start":"06:29.900 ","End":"06:35.360","Text":"I could say take x=3 and y=7,"},{"Start":"06:35.360 ","End":"06:36.890","Text":"and ask if it\u0027s a solution."},{"Start":"06:36.890 ","End":"06:39.440","Text":"The reason I\u0027m putting braces here is to say that,"},{"Start":"06:39.440 ","End":"06:44.465","Text":"this pair of values together may or may not be a solution."},{"Start":"06:44.465 ","End":"06:45.740","Text":"In this case, it is,"},{"Start":"06:45.740 ","End":"06:50.090","Text":"because if I put x=3 and y=7,"},{"Start":"06:50.090 ","End":"06:53.405","Text":"3+7=10, is a true statement."},{"Start":"06:53.405 ","End":"06:55.905","Text":"But if I ask you, if,"},{"Start":"06:55.905 ","End":"06:59.615","Text":"let\u0027s say x=1,"},{"Start":"06:59.615 ","End":"07:02.229","Text":"y=6 is a solution,"},{"Start":"07:02.229 ","End":"07:07.145","Text":"then you would have to say no because 1+6=10,"},{"Start":"07:07.145 ","End":"07:08.944","Text":"which is what I get when I substitute,"},{"Start":"07:08.944 ","End":"07:10.820","Text":"is not a true statement."},{"Start":"07:10.820 ","End":"07:13.369","Text":"So this is not a solution this is a solution."},{"Start":"07:13.369 ","End":"07:16.730","Text":"This equation has also many solutions."},{"Start":"07:16.730 ","End":"07:19.415","Text":"For example, if I took,"},{"Start":"07:19.415 ","End":"07:27.140","Text":"let\u0027s say, x=4,"},{"Start":"07:27.140 ","End":"07:28.710","Text":"y=6, would this be a solution?"},{"Start":"07:28.710 ","End":"07:30.735","Text":"I substitute and ask,"},{"Start":"07:30.735 ","End":"07:35.265","Text":"is 4+6 equal 10?"},{"Start":"07:35.265 ","End":"07:37.875","Text":"The answer is, yes."},{"Start":"07:37.875 ","End":"07:39.965","Text":"So this is a solution,"},{"Start":"07:39.965 ","End":"07:41.270","Text":"and this is a solution,"},{"Start":"07:41.270 ","End":"07:43.150","Text":"but this is not a solution."},{"Start":"07:43.150 ","End":"07:47.705","Text":"This is just to show you all kinds of equations."},{"Start":"07:47.705 ","End":"07:50.800","Text":"I just forgot to highlight this one."},{"Start":"07:50.800 ","End":"07:53.310","Text":"Let\u0027s see how many equations have we looked at?"},{"Start":"07:53.310 ","End":"07:54.905","Text":"We have six examples."},{"Start":"07:54.905 ","End":"07:57.900","Text":"Now I\u0027ll get a little bit more formal."}],"ID":4929},{"Watched":false,"Name":"Exercise 1","Duration":"6m 39s","ChapterTopicVideoID":4930,"CourseChapterTopicPlaylistID":56123,"HasSubtitles":true,"ThumbnailPath":"https://www.proprep.com/Images/Videos_Thumbnails/4930.jpeg","UploadDate":"2020-09-30T06:20:39.6000000","DurationForVideoObject":"PT6M39S","Description":null,"VideoComments":[],"Subtitles":[{"Start":"00:00.000 ","End":"00:04.320","Text":"In this exercise there are six sections and in each one of them we have to"},{"Start":"00:04.320 ","End":"00:09.870","Text":"check if a given number is a solution to the equation in different letters,"},{"Start":"00:09.870 ","End":"00:12.390","Text":"a couple of them in x, couple of them in z,"},{"Start":"00:12.390 ","End":"00:15.630","Text":"there\u0027s a y and there\u0027s a w. What we have to do is"},{"Start":"00:15.630 ","End":"00:19.122","Text":"substitute and see if we get an equality,"},{"Start":"00:19.122 ","End":"00:21.405","Text":"if the left-hand side equals the right-hand side."},{"Start":"00:21.405 ","End":"00:27.045","Text":"Let\u0027s start with the first one and I\u0027ve copied them again with a bit more space."},{"Start":"00:27.045 ","End":"00:31.400","Text":"All we do is substitute in each of the sides,"},{"Start":"00:31.400 ","End":"00:34.460","Text":"left-hand side and right-hand side and see if we get the same thing."},{"Start":"00:34.460 ","End":"00:36.230","Text":"Sometimes I start with"},{"Start":"00:36.230 ","End":"00:38.960","Text":"the left-hand side and then see if we can reach the right-hand side,"},{"Start":"00:38.960 ","End":"00:42.455","Text":"and sometimes you can substitute in both simultaneously."},{"Start":"00:42.455 ","End":"00:44.555","Text":"It depends what\u0027s more convenient."},{"Start":"00:44.555 ","End":"00:47.510","Text":"Here I\u0027m going to substitute simultaneously."},{"Start":"00:47.510 ","End":"00:53.615","Text":"What we have to ask this question mark is important because if I let x equals 6,"},{"Start":"00:53.615 ","End":"00:56.885","Text":"I get twice 6 plus 1."},{"Start":"00:56.885 ","End":"01:03.900","Text":"The parentheses of are emphasis equals 3 times 6 minus 2."},{"Start":"01:03.900 ","End":"01:06.950","Text":"This is the 6 from here, minus 5."},{"Start":"01:06.950 ","End":"01:08.845","Text":"Now, I don\u0027t just write equals,"},{"Start":"01:08.845 ","End":"01:12.470","Text":"I write equals with a question mark because that\u0027s what I want to check."},{"Start":"01:12.470 ","End":"01:14.480","Text":"It may be equal and it may be not."},{"Start":"01:14.480 ","End":"01:16.040","Text":"If it is and it is a solution."},{"Start":"01:16.040 ","End":"01:19.550","Text":"If not, then not. Let us see what is the left-hand side equal?"},{"Start":"01:19.550 ","End":"01:24.605","Text":"The left-hand side is twice 6 is 12 plus 1 is 13."},{"Start":"01:24.605 ","End":"01:27.710","Text":"The right-hand side, order of operations,"},{"Start":"01:27.710 ","End":"01:30.005","Text":"the brackets first that\u0027s 4,"},{"Start":"01:30.005 ","End":"01:39.090","Text":"then 3 times 4 is 12 and 12 minus 5 is 7."},{"Start":"01:39.090 ","End":"01:42.544","Text":"These are not equal."},{"Start":"01:42.544 ","End":"01:46.350","Text":"No. This is not equal."},{"Start":"01:46.580 ","End":"01:50.090","Text":"The answer is no, so it\u0027s not a solution."},{"Start":"01:50.090 ","End":"01:52.340","Text":"The next one is very similar to this."},{"Start":"01:52.340 ","End":"01:55.775","Text":"I see that the only difference is instead of a minus 5 there\u0027s a plus 1."},{"Start":"01:55.775 ","End":"01:58.790","Text":"But just copying the bits that are similar,"},{"Start":"01:58.790 ","End":"02:03.540","Text":"equals question mark 3 times 6 minus 2."},{"Start":"02:03.540 ","End":"02:05.505","Text":"Then instead of the minus 5 here,"},{"Start":"02:05.505 ","End":"02:07.265","Text":"I\u0027ve got a plus 1 here."},{"Start":"02:07.265 ","End":"02:09.680","Text":"Now we\u0027ve already computed this as 13."},{"Start":"02:09.680 ","End":"02:11.885","Text":"Let\u0027s just see this time the right-hand side,"},{"Start":"02:11.885 ","End":"02:17.310","Text":"3 times 4 is 12 as before 12 plus 1 is 13."},{"Start":"02:17.310 ","End":"02:21.105","Text":"The answer is 13 equal 13."},{"Start":"02:21.105 ","End":"02:23.285","Text":"The answer is yes."},{"Start":"02:23.285 ","End":"02:26.800","Text":"Put a checkmark and I write a yes."},{"Start":"02:26.800 ","End":"02:29.390","Text":"The answer is yes it is a solution."},{"Start":"02:29.390 ","End":"02:31.760","Text":"Next one."},{"Start":"02:31.760 ","End":"02:36.485","Text":"This time we\u0027ll move into letter z or z if you\u0027re in the UK."},{"Start":"02:36.485 ","End":"02:41.090","Text":"Is z equal minus 2 a solution to this equation?"},{"Start":"02:41.090 ","End":"02:45.620","Text":"Once again, we\u0027ll substitute in each side and the left-hand side."},{"Start":"02:45.620 ","End":"02:49.460","Text":"Let me just copy the equal here and put a question mark."},{"Start":"02:49.460 ","End":"02:57.710","Text":"We\u0027re asking is minus 2 squared plus minus 2 plus 1,"},{"Start":"02:57.710 ","End":"03:02.780","Text":"does this equal twice minus 2 plus 5?"},{"Start":"03:02.780 ","End":"03:07.520","Text":"Let\u0027s see. Here we have 4 because the whole thing is squared."},{"Start":"03:07.520 ","End":"03:12.905","Text":"4 minus 2 plus 1 is 3 and is this"},{"Start":"03:12.905 ","End":"03:18.625","Text":"equal to minus 4 plus 5 is 1?"},{"Start":"03:18.625 ","End":"03:21.485","Text":"I would say that the answer is no."},{"Start":"03:21.485 ","End":"03:23.875","Text":"It\u0027s not a solution."},{"Start":"03:23.875 ","End":"03:26.345","Text":"In this one, again,"},{"Start":"03:26.345 ","End":"03:28.100","Text":"similar to the previous one,"},{"Start":"03:28.100 ","End":"03:31.780","Text":"the only difference is that we have a plus 7 at the end."},{"Start":"03:31.780 ","End":"03:34.710","Text":"Just copy this bit again,"},{"Start":"03:34.710 ","End":"03:39.110","Text":"minus 2 squared plus minus 2 plus one."},{"Start":"03:39.110 ","End":"03:44.570","Text":"Is this equal to twice minus 2 this time plus 7?"},{"Start":"03:44.570 ","End":"03:53.295","Text":"In other words, is 3 equal to twice minus 2 plus 7?"},{"Start":"03:53.295 ","End":"03:59.265","Text":"This time, minus 4 plus 7 is,"},{"Start":"03:59.265 ","End":"04:02.160","Text":"just erase this, 3."},{"Start":"04:02.160 ","End":"04:04.425","Text":"Yes, it is."},{"Start":"04:04.425 ","End":"04:08.030","Text":"This time this is a solution to this."},{"Start":"04:08.030 ","End":"04:10.055","Text":"A couple more to go,"},{"Start":"04:10.055 ","End":"04:13.105","Text":"this time with a division sign."},{"Start":"04:13.105 ","End":"04:17.660","Text":"Let me just say that when you have a division example,"},{"Start":"04:17.660 ","End":"04:20.295","Text":"you have to make sure denominator is not 0,"},{"Start":"04:20.295 ","End":"04:22.190","Text":"otherwise the thing doesn\u0027t make sense."},{"Start":"04:22.190 ","End":"04:23.525","Text":"First one."},{"Start":"04:23.525 ","End":"04:26.194","Text":"Is y equals 1 a solution to this?"},{"Start":"04:26.194 ","End":"04:31.070","Text":"Let\u0027s substitute in the left-hand side and in the right-hand side."},{"Start":"04:31.070 ","End":"04:32.375","Text":"Right-hand side is easier,"},{"Start":"04:32.375 ","End":"04:35.300","Text":"0, left-hand side we\u0027re asking,"},{"Start":"04:35.300 ","End":"04:42.050","Text":"does 1 minus 1/1^2 plus 1 equals 0?"},{"Start":"04:42.050 ","End":"04:44.405","Text":"The numerator is 0,"},{"Start":"04:44.405 ","End":"04:47.315","Text":"and 0 over anything is 0."},{"Start":"04:47.315 ","End":"04:50.164","Text":"The answer is yes,"},{"Start":"04:50.164 ","End":"04:51.860","Text":"it is equal to."},{"Start":"04:51.860 ","End":"04:56.975","Text":"But if I put this thing in here,"},{"Start":"04:56.975 ","End":"04:59.120","Text":"there\u0027s a contrast with this question."},{"Start":"04:59.120 ","End":"05:01.610","Text":"I also get 0 in the numerator as we\u0027ll see."},{"Start":"05:01.610 ","End":"05:03.484","Text":"Okay, let\u0027s just get started."},{"Start":"05:03.484 ","End":"05:09.660","Text":"I\u0027m asking is minus 4 squared plus 5"},{"Start":"05:09.660 ","End":"05:17.160","Text":"times minus 4 plus 4/minus 4 plus 4."},{"Start":"05:17.160 ","End":"05:20.685","Text":"Is this equal to 0?"},{"Start":"05:20.685 ","End":"05:23.080","Text":"If you just did the numerator,"},{"Start":"05:23.080 ","End":"05:26.590","Text":"you would say minus 4 squared is 16."},{"Start":"05:26.590 ","End":"05:28.300","Text":"Let me just do this at the side here."},{"Start":"05:28.300 ","End":"05:32.825","Text":"16, 5 times minus 4 is minus 20,"},{"Start":"05:32.825 ","End":"05:34.580","Text":"and then plus 4,"},{"Start":"05:34.580 ","End":"05:38.260","Text":"you would say that this is equal to 0."},{"Start":"05:38.260 ","End":"05:40.135","Text":"If you just stopped there and said,"},{"Start":"05:40.135 ","End":"05:43.210","Text":"like I did before, 0 over anything is 0,"},{"Start":"05:43.210 ","End":"05:48.775","Text":"that would not be quite right because here the denominator is also 0."},{"Start":"05:48.775 ","End":"05:52.820","Text":"Really, I should have checked in the previous question,"},{"Start":"05:52.820 ","End":"05:54.845","Text":"I shouldn\u0027t have just said 0 over anything."},{"Start":"05:54.845 ","End":"05:57.715","Text":"I should have said 0 over 2."},{"Start":"05:57.715 ","End":"05:59.450","Text":"Not that the 2 is important,"},{"Start":"05:59.450 ","End":"06:01.670","Text":"but it\u0027s important that it\u0027s not 0."},{"Start":"06:01.670 ","End":"06:04.475","Text":"0 over non-zero is 0,"},{"Start":"06:04.475 ","End":"06:08.465","Text":"but 0 over 0 is undefined."},{"Start":"06:08.465 ","End":"06:10.925","Text":"It\u0027s just undefined."},{"Start":"06:10.925 ","End":"06:12.500","Text":"It doesn\u0027t make sense,"},{"Start":"06:12.500 ","End":"06:15.124","Text":"not a number, not defined."},{"Start":"06:15.124 ","End":"06:18.740","Text":"We\u0027re not allowed to substitute w equals minus 4."},{"Start":"06:18.740 ","End":"06:20.630","Text":"If we can\u0027t substitute 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what an equation is."},{"Start":"00:23.955 ","End":"00:27.150","Text":"It\u0027s just one thing that the algebraic expressions,"},{"Start":"00:27.150 ","End":"00:30.135","Text":"one of the other should contain at least one variable."},{"Start":"00:30.135 ","End":"00:33.970","Text":"Because also an arithmetic expression is also an algebraic expression."},{"Start":"00:33.970 ","End":"00:36.320","Text":"We have to have at least one variable, usually x,"},{"Start":"00:36.320 ","End":"00:38.945","Text":"but it could be more, and let me give an example."},{"Start":"00:38.945 ","End":"00:40.130","Text":"In the previous clip,"},{"Start":"00:40.130 ","End":"00:42.260","Text":"we did this equation,"},{"Start":"00:42.260 ","End":"00:43.895","Text":"which I copy pasted."},{"Start":"00:43.895 ","End":"00:45.965","Text":"If you look at it,"},{"Start":"00:45.965 ","End":"00:49.250","Text":"it does fit the pattern that"},{"Start":"00:49.250 ","End":"00:55.235","Text":"one algebraic expression is equal to another algebraic expression."},{"Start":"00:55.235 ","End":"00:59.855","Text":"It also satisfies the extra condition I didn\u0027t write, I should write it."},{"Start":"00:59.855 ","End":"01:03.785","Text":"That is, it must contain at least 1 variable,"},{"Start":"01:03.785 ","End":"01:06.875","Text":"and here is our variable x."},{"Start":"01:06.875 ","End":"01:09.935","Text":"Now last time we guessed the solution."},{"Start":"01:09.935 ","End":"01:16.970","Text":"We somehow guessed that the solution was x=3."},{"Start":"01:17.020 ","End":"01:20.210","Text":"Even if we don\u0027t know how to solve equations,"},{"Start":"01:20.210 ","End":"01:23.090","Text":"we can certainly check if something is a solution."},{"Start":"01:23.090 ","End":"01:25.865","Text":"For example, if I put x=3 here,"},{"Start":"01:25.865 ","End":"01:30.140","Text":"I get that 3 plus 2=5 and I ask myself,"},{"Start":"01:30.140 ","End":"01:31.670","Text":"is this a true statement?"},{"Start":"01:31.670 ","End":"01:33.980","Text":"If it is, and it is,"},{"Start":"01:33.980 ","End":"01:36.905","Text":"then we say that this is a solution."},{"Start":"01:36.905 ","End":"01:39.185","Text":"I don\u0027t want to guess solutions,"},{"Start":"01:39.185 ","End":"01:42.605","Text":"and I want to know how to get from here to here."},{"Start":"01:42.605 ","End":"01:44.285","Text":"How do I get there?"},{"Start":"01:44.285 ","End":"01:46.440","Text":"I\u0027m deliberately starting with easy examples,"},{"Start":"01:46.440 ","End":"01:48.020","Text":"and of course in your head,"},{"Start":"01:48.020 ","End":"01:51.680","Text":"you could tell me what number plus 2=5,"},{"Start":"01:51.680 ","End":"01:54.470","Text":"and here you\u0027d immediately say, \"Yeah, 3.\""},{"Start":"01:54.470 ","End":"01:58.415","Text":"Somehow in your head you\u0027d be subtracting 5 less 2."},{"Start":"01:58.415 ","End":"02:00.580","Text":"Let\u0027s try and make this more formal."},{"Start":"02:00.580 ","End":"02:04.850","Text":"I\u0027m going to erase whatever it is that I don\u0027t need."},{"Start":"02:04.850 ","End":"02:09.890","Text":"Let\u0027s say we don\u0027t know the solution and we have x plus 2=5,"},{"Start":"02:09.890 ","End":"02:11.945","Text":"and we want to solve it."},{"Start":"02:11.945 ","End":"02:13.610","Text":"The basic principle is,"},{"Start":"02:13.610 ","End":"02:15.395","Text":"if I have an equation,"},{"Start":"02:15.395 ","End":"02:17.165","Text":"something equals something,"},{"Start":"02:17.165 ","End":"02:19.655","Text":"if I do the same thing to both sides,"},{"Start":"02:19.655 ","End":"02:21.050","Text":"they will still be equal."},{"Start":"02:21.050 ","End":"02:23.885","Text":"Let\u0027s say I want to subtract 2 from both sides."},{"Start":"02:23.885 ","End":"02:26.690","Text":"What I will get will still be an equation."},{"Start":"02:26.690 ","End":"02:27.935","Text":"They\u0027ll still be equal."},{"Start":"02:27.935 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","End":"03:03.070","Text":"x plus 2 minus 2 is just x,"},{"Start":"03:03.070 ","End":"03:05.595","Text":"5 minus 2 is 3,"},{"Start":"03:05.595 ","End":"03:09.190","Text":"and so the solution is x=3,"},{"Start":"03:09.190 ","End":"03:11.300","Text":"and we did it not by guesswork."},{"Start":"03:11.300 ","End":"03:14.105","Text":"Now let me take another example."},{"Start":"03:14.105 ","End":"03:16.800","Text":"Let\u0027s say this was example 1,"},{"Start":"03:16.800 ","End":"03:18.990","Text":"and now I\u0027ll go for example 2,"},{"Start":"03:18.990 ","End":"03:20.760","Text":"try a different color."},{"Start":"03:20.760 ","End":"03:25.750","Text":"Let\u0027s say x minus 3=8."},{"Start":"03:27.890 ","End":"03:33.500","Text":"If we do it mentally, you can easily see that we\u0027re asking what minus 3=8,"},{"Start":"03:33.500 ","End":"03:35.570","Text":"and we know straight away that it\u0027s going to be 11,"},{"Start":"03:35.570 ","End":"03:37.115","Text":"but how would I do this?"},{"Start":"03:37.115 ","End":"03:40.670","Text":"Well, just like I said, if I do the same thing to both sides of an equation,"},{"Start":"03:40.670 ","End":"03:42.155","Text":"it\u0027ll still be an equation."},{"Start":"03:42.155 ","End":"03:46.820","Text":"In this case, what I really want to do is to add 3 to both sides."},{"Start":"03:46.820 ","End":"03:50.505","Text":"I\u0027m going to now add 3,"},{"Start":"03:50.505 ","End":"03:56.760","Text":"and then I will get that x minus 3 wherever was,"},{"Start":"03:56.760 ","End":"03:59.175","Text":"now I\u0027m adding 3 to the left side."},{"Start":"03:59.175 ","End":"04:00.780","Text":"This is the left hand side of the equation."},{"Start":"04:00.780 ","End":"04:02.010","Text":"This is the right hand side."},{"Start":"04:02.010 ","End":"04:08.940","Text":"Right hand side, I will also add 3 and then simplification,"},{"Start":"04:08.940 ","End":"04:12.270","Text":"x minus 3 plus 3 is just x,"},{"Start":"04:12.270 ","End":"04:15.465","Text":"will give me that x is equal to 11."},{"Start":"04:15.465 ","End":"04:19.440","Text":"Continuing, I need a bit more space here."},{"Start":"04:19.440 ","End":"04:26.220","Text":"This time my equation will be 4x=12."},{"Start":"04:26.220 ","End":"04:27.840","Text":"Remember in algebra,"},{"Start":"04:27.840 ","End":"04:30.215","Text":"if we don\u0027t have any operation written"},{"Start":"04:30.215 ","End":"04:32.930","Text":"2 things next to each other, it means multiplication."},{"Start":"04:32.930 ","End":"04:38.750","Text":"I\u0027ll just put the dot in to remind us that 4x means 4 times x."},{"Start":"04:38.750 ","End":"04:41.630","Text":"If I was to say to you 4 times what is 12,"},{"Start":"04:41.630 ","End":"04:44.915","Text":"you\u0027d have no trouble in telling me that that something is 3."},{"Start":"04:44.915 ","End":"04:47.260","Text":"I know the answer is going to be 3,"},{"Start":"04:47.260 ","End":"04:52.819","Text":"but I want to do it using this technique of doing the same thing to both sides."},{"Start":"04:52.819 ","End":"04:57.375","Text":"Clearly we want to somehow divide 12 by 4,."},{"Start":"04:57.375 ","End":"05:03.100","Text":"So what I\u0027m going to do is say, divide by 4."},{"Start":"05:03.500 ","End":"05:05.700","Text":"This is not the way we\u0027re going to do it."},{"Start":"05:05.700 ","End":"05:07.560","Text":"I\u0027m going to show you shortcuts."},{"Start":"05:07.560 ","End":"05:10.260","Text":"You wouldn\u0027t actually write subtract 2."},{"Start":"05:10.260 ","End":"05:12.185","Text":"I\u0027m going to show you afterwards how we would do it."},{"Start":"05:12.185 ","End":"05:13.370","Text":"I\u0027m doing it the long way,"},{"Start":"05:13.370 ","End":"05:15.980","Text":"just for educational purposes."},{"Start":"05:15.980 ","End":"05:17.420","Text":"So divide by 4,"},{"Start":"05:17.420 ","End":"05:19.310","Text":"I mean divide both sides by 4,"},{"Start":"05:19.310 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not in common?"},{"Start":"06:00.350 ","End":"06:01.670","Text":"I\u0027ve used addition."},{"Start":"06:01.670 ","End":"06:02.840","Text":"I\u0027ve used subtraction."},{"Start":"06:02.840 ","End":"06:04.044","Text":"I\u0027ve used multiplication."},{"Start":"06:04.044 ","End":"06:06.965","Text":"Let\u0027s give one more example with a division,"},{"Start":"06:06.965 ","End":"06:10.050","Text":"a bit more space, there I go."},{"Start":"06:10.050 ","End":"06:12.015","Text":"Example number 4,"},{"Start":"06:12.015 ","End":"06:19.470","Text":"let\u0027s take x divided by 5=6."},{"Start":"06:19.470 ","End":"06:23.565","Text":"What number divided by 5 is 6?"},{"Start":"06:23.565 ","End":"06:27.290","Text":"You could probably mentally do this and you\u0027d probably somehow end up mentally"},{"Start":"06:27.290 ","End":"06:31.085","Text":"doing 5 times 6 is 30 and indeed 30 over 5 is 6."},{"Start":"06:31.085 ","End":"06:32.839","Text":"But how do we do this formally?"},{"Start":"06:32.839 ","End":"06:35.930","Text":"In this case, we do something to both sides of the equation."},{"Start":"06:35.930 ","End":"06:41.280","Text":"In this case, we want to multiply by 5."},{"Start":"06:41.280 ","End":"06:46.525","Text":"That will do the trick for us because then we will get x over"},{"Start":"06:46.525 ","End":"06:54.615","Text":"5 times 5=6 times 5."},{"Start":"06:54.615 ","End":"06:57.225","Text":"Once again, we know how to cancel,"},{"Start":"06:57.225 ","End":"07:01.035","Text":"5 in the numerator cancels with 5 in the denominator,"},{"Start":"07:01.035 ","End":"07:10.030","Text":"and we\u0027re left here with just x is equal to 6 times 5 is 30 as we expected and suspected."},{"Start":"07:10.030 ","End":"07:14.190","Text":"That\u0027s 4 examples of 4 basic operations."},{"Start":"07:14.190 ","End":"07:18.525","Text":"Let me show you the short way of doing all these."},{"Start":"07:18.525 ","End":"07:21.175","Text":"I\u0027ll go back to the top,"},{"Start":"07:21.175 ","End":"07:24.800","Text":"and let me just get rid of this,"},{"Start":"07:24.800 ","End":"07:26.255","Text":"get some space here."},{"Start":"07:26.255 ","End":"07:33.620","Text":"In practice, if I was given x plus 2=5 what we do is,"},{"Start":"07:33.620 ","End":"07:40.715","Text":"we say, bring the 2 over to the other side and change its sign."},{"Start":"07:40.715 ","End":"07:46.455","Text":"What we say is that x=5 minus 2."},{"Start":"07:46.455 ","End":"07:51.185","Text":"If you have a plus something and you put it on the other side and make it a minus,"},{"Start":"07:51.185 ","End":"07:54.840","Text":"that\u0027s the practical way of what we do,"},{"Start":"07:54.840 ","End":"07:57.990","Text":"and then we just say that 5 minus 2 is 3."},{"Start":"07:57.990 ","End":"08:00.510","Text":"Addition, changes to subtraction."},{"Start":"08:00.510 ","End":"08:03.480","Text":"If you want the reasoning, this is the reasoning."},{"Start":"08:03.480 ","End":"08:07.770","Text":"Next example, 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Linear,"},{"Start":"00:24.990 ","End":"00:26.190","Text":"I could define it,"},{"Start":"00:26.190 ","End":"00:27.645","Text":"but I don\u0027t want to get too technical."},{"Start":"00:27.645 ","End":"00:29.745","Text":"Let me just say what is not linear."},{"Start":"00:29.745 ","End":"00:33.150","Text":"Not linear, I\u0027m talking about the word linear here,"},{"Start":"00:33.150 ","End":"00:39.420","Text":"is not exponents, meaning stuff like x squared or in general,"},{"Start":"00:39.420 ","End":"00:43.205","Text":"x^n, not square roots of x,"},{"Start":"00:43.205 ","End":"00:45.785","Text":"not the nth root of x,"},{"Start":"00:45.785 ","End":"00:47.180","Text":"or anything like that,"},{"Start":"00:47.180 ","End":"00:51.350","Text":"and not 1/x or x in a denominator."},{"Start":"00:51.350 ","End":"00:52.985","Text":"These are the things that are not."},{"Start":"00:52.985 ","End":"00:56.650","Text":"Let\u0027s just get started and I think I\u0027ll do about 4 examples."},{"Start":"00:56.650 ","End":"01:03.260","Text":"The first example, 6x+2=8."},{"Start":"01:03.260 ","End":"01:04.670","Text":"Certainly, there\u0027s no exponents,"},{"Start":"01:04.670 ","End":"01:07.370","Text":"roots, denominators, anything like that."},{"Start":"01:07.370 ","End":"01:11.285","Text":"We\u0027re going to use the techniques that we learned in the last clip,"},{"Start":"01:11.285 ","End":"01:16.400","Text":"which is mainly whatever you do to one side you can do to the other."},{"Start":"01:16.400 ","End":"01:20.420","Text":"Also, we learned the technique of how to bring things"},{"Start":"01:20.420 ","End":"01:24.680","Text":"from one side to the other by taking the opposite."},{"Start":"01:24.680 ","End":"01:28.750","Text":"In this case, what I want to do first is bring the 2"},{"Start":"01:28.750 ","End":"01:32.900","Text":"to the other side and change it from a plus to a minus."},{"Start":"01:32.900 ","End":"01:37.610","Text":"6x=8-2."},{"Start":"01:37.610 ","End":"01:40.385","Text":"Sometimes I like to draw a little arrow,"},{"Start":"01:40.385 ","End":"01:42.470","Text":"something like this, to show what I\u0027m doing,"},{"Start":"01:42.470 ","End":"01:43.940","Text":"is I\u0027m taking the 2 to the other side,"},{"Start":"01:43.940 ","End":"01:45.710","Text":"but it changes sign."},{"Start":"01:45.710 ","End":"01:48.270","Text":"This is equal to 6,"},{"Start":"01:48.270 ","End":"01:50.415","Text":"and I\u0027ll just copy the 6x here."},{"Start":"01:50.415 ","End":"01:53.750","Text":"Remember 6x means 6*x."},{"Start":"01:53.750 ","End":"01:55.670","Text":"This gives me a hint to what to do next."},{"Start":"01:55.670 ","End":"01:57.020","Text":"I want to get rid of that 6,"},{"Start":"01:57.020 ","End":"02:00.095","Text":"so I\u0027m going to bring it over to the other side."},{"Start":"02:00.095 ","End":"02:03.020","Text":"This means that if it\u0027s multiplication here,"},{"Start":"02:03.020 ","End":"02:04.790","Text":"it\u0027s going to be division here."},{"Start":"02:04.790 ","End":"02:11.230","Text":"X is equal to this 6/6."},{"Start":"02:11.230 ","End":"02:14.175","Text":"We\u0027re left with x=1,"},{"Start":"02:14.175 ","End":"02:16.620","Text":"and that\u0027s the answer to this."},{"Start":"02:16.620 ","End":"02:18.630","Text":"Onto Number 2."},{"Start":"02:18.630 ","End":"02:23.505","Text":"7-2x=7."},{"Start":"02:23.505 ","End":"02:27.310","Text":"I want to get rid of this 7 here,"},{"Start":"02:27.310 ","End":"02:29.360","Text":"and I\u0027ll throw it to the other side."},{"Start":"02:29.360 ","End":"02:31.607","Text":"I\u0027ll just put an arrow here."},{"Start":"02:31.607 ","End":"02:35.040","Text":"When I throw it over to the other side, it changes sign."},{"Start":"02:35.040 ","End":"02:37.810","Text":"Here it\u0027s a plus. If here\u0027s nothing in front of it\u0027s a plus,"},{"Start":"02:37.810 ","End":"02:40.055","Text":"so here it becomes a minus."},{"Start":"02:40.055 ","End":"02:44.970","Text":"I get -2x=7 that was here,"},{"Start":"02:44.970 ","End":"02:50.325","Text":"and this 7 over here becomes minus.-2x,"},{"Start":"02:50.325 ","End":"02:53.410","Text":"just copying, equals 7-7 is 0."},{"Start":"02:53.410 ","End":"02:57.485","Text":"Now I want to get rid of this -2."},{"Start":"02:57.485 ","End":"03:00.290","Text":"I\u0027m going to take this-2,"},{"Start":"03:00.290 ","End":"03:04.060","Text":"the whole of it, and move it to the other side."},{"Start":"03:04.060 ","End":"03:06.890","Text":"But what do we do with it on the other side?"},{"Start":"03:06.890 ","End":"03:08.930","Text":"Well, here there\u0027s a multiplication."},{"Start":"03:08.930 ","End":"03:11.000","Text":"If there\u0027s nothing written, it\u0027s a multiplication."},{"Start":"03:11.000 ","End":"03:12.470","Text":"When I put it on the other side,"},{"Start":"03:12.470 ","End":"03:14.045","Text":"it becomes a division."},{"Start":"03:14.045 ","End":"03:19.515","Text":"x is 0 divided by-2."},{"Start":"03:19.515 ","End":"03:21.960","Text":"Well, 0 divided by anything is 0,"},{"Start":"03:21.960 ","End":"03:25.980","Text":"so x=0 and that\u0027s the answer to this."},{"Start":"03:25.980 ","End":"03:30.350","Text":"I want to remind you or tell you that you can always check"},{"Start":"03:30.350 ","End":"03:35.660","Text":"your answer by substituting at the end what you get in the original equation."},{"Start":"03:35.660 ","End":"03:39.890","Text":"For example, here if I put x=1, I get 6*1+2."},{"Start":"03:39.890 ","End":"03:41.360","Text":"Does that equal 8?"},{"Start":"03:41.360 ","End":"03:42.815","Text":"Well, yes it does."},{"Start":"03:42.815 ","End":"03:44.925","Text":"Or here, x=0."},{"Start":"03:44.925 ","End":"03:48.030","Text":"Is 7-2*0=7?"},{"Start":"03:48.030 ","End":"03:49.680","Text":"The answer is yes."},{"Start":"03:49.680 ","End":"03:51.300","Text":"This is very important."},{"Start":"03:51.300 ","End":"03:52.850","Text":"I\u0027m not going to say it each time,"},{"Start":"03:52.850 ","End":"03:55.505","Text":"but really, if you have the time,"},{"Start":"03:55.505 ","End":"03:58.130","Text":"you want to be sure when you get your answer"},{"Start":"03:58.130 ","End":"04:02.615","Text":"substituted in the original and see if it gives you something true."},{"Start":"04:02.615 ","End":"04:05.065","Text":"Let\u0027s get onto Number 3."},{"Start":"04:05.065 ","End":"04:14.270","Text":"Number 3 will be 2x+x=24."},{"Start":"04:14.270 ","End":"04:17.585","Text":"This is a bit different than the ones we\u0027ve had so far."},{"Start":"04:17.585 ","End":"04:24.130","Text":"It won\u0027t really help us to move an x to the other side or even the 2x,"},{"Start":"04:24.130 ","End":"04:27.290","Text":"but still I\u0027m going to have x on both sides and that\u0027s not 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","End":"05:42.620","Text":"If you look at the ones we\u0027ve done so far,"},{"Start":"05:42.620 ","End":"05:44.060","Text":"this is what we did."},{"Start":"05:44.060 ","End":"05:48.245","Text":"We left the x\u0027s on the left and we put the numbers on the right."},{"Start":"05:48.245 ","End":"05:50.600","Text":"In Number 2, I\u0027ve put the number on the right,"},{"Start":"05:50.600 ","End":"05:52.835","Text":"so we had x\u0027s on the left, numbers on the right."},{"Start":"05:52.835 ","End":"05:57.395","Text":"Here, we already had x\u0027s on the left and numbers on the right."},{"Start":"05:57.395 ","End":"05:59.270","Text":"Same thing here."},{"Start":"05:59.270 ","End":"06:02.876","Text":"What I want to do is keep the 5x or"},{"Start":"06:02.876 ","End":"06:07.605","Text":"-5x here and bring this over to this side. I\u0027ll indicate that."},{"Start":"06:07.605 ","End":"06:11.983","Text":"I want the 3x moved over to the left because it\u0027s an x,"},{"Start":"06:11.983 ","End":"06:15.080","Text":"I want the 7 to go over to the right,"},{"Start":"06:15.080 ","End":"06:18.125","Text":"and I want the 2 to go over to the right."},{"Start":"06:18.125 ","End":"06:22.325","Text":"Remember, with addition and subtraction we reverse the sign."},{"Start":"06:22.325 ","End":"06:23.780","Text":"Let\u0027s see what we get."},{"Start":"06:23.780 ","End":"06:26.895","Text":"On the left we already had a -5x,"},{"Start":"06:26.895 ","End":"06:28.825","Text":"so it stays -5x."},{"Start":"06:28.825 ","End":"06:36.385","Text":"But we brought this one over or over about to bring it over and it becomes +3x."},{"Start":"06:36.385 ","End":"06:38.370","Text":"That\u0027s all the x\u0027s on the left."},{"Start":"06:38.370 ","End":"06:41.344","Text":"Now the numbers on the right is,"},{"Start":"06:41.344 ","End":"06:42.960","Text":"we already had an 8 here,"},{"Start":"06:42.960 ","End":"06:45.495","Text":"so let\u0027s leave that 8, it\u0027s +8."},{"Start":"06:45.495 ","End":"06:53.110","Text":"The 2 comes over as -2 and the +7 comes over as -7."},{"Start":"06:53.110 ","End":"06:56.855","Text":"Now we\u0027ve separated like terms."},{"Start":"06:56.855 ","End":"06:59.075","Text":"The x\u0027s on the left, numbers on the right."},{"Start":"06:59.075 ","End":"07:01.310","Text":"Now we just have to collect them."},{"Start":"07:01.310 ","End":"07:03.380","Text":"Let\u0027s see, how many x do we have?"},{"Start":"07:03.380 ","End":"07:09.555","Text":"Well, we have-5+3, which is-2x."},{"Start":"07:09.555 ","End":"07:13.620","Text":"On the right we have 8-2-7,"},{"Start":"07:13.620 ","End":"07:17.265","Text":"and that comes out to be-1."},{"Start":"07:17.265 ","End":"07:20.150","Text":"Now we have this multiplication here,"},{"Start":"07:20.150 ","End":"07:24.860","Text":"we want to take this-2 and move it to the other side."},{"Start":"07:24.860 ","End":"07:28.180","Text":"This time a multiplication turns into a division."},{"Start":"07:28.180 ","End":"07:33.520","Text":"What we get is that x=-1/-2."},{"Start":"07:33.520 ","End":"07:36.290","Text":"Remember, negative over negative is positive,"},{"Start":"07:36.290 ","End":"07:40.525","Text":"so this just gives us that x is 1.5."},{"Start":"07:40.525 ","End":"07:42.960","Text":"A fraction. 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x will go on the left,"},{"Start":"01:26.570 ","End":"01:28.490","Text":"just numbers will go on the right."},{"Start":"01:28.490 ","End":"01:34.085","Text":"What I have to do is move this over to the right and this over to the right."},{"Start":"01:34.085 ","End":"01:35.240","Text":"But this will stay on the right."},{"Start":"01:35.240 ","End":"01:37.585","Text":"It is a number and this will stay on the left."},{"Start":"01:37.585 ","End":"01:41.400","Text":"We get 2x equals the 1 that was here,"},{"Start":"01:41.400 ","End":"01:47.510","Text":"plus 4, plus 3 because when it deserts to the other side, it changes sign."},{"Start":"01:47.510 ","End":"01:50.575","Text":"We get 2x equals 8."},{"Start":"01:50.575 ","End":"01:53.660","Text":"Now again, we bring 2 over to the other side,"},{"Start":"01:53.660 ","End":"01:55.730","Text":"but this time what we have here is"},{"Start":"01:55.730 ","End":"01:58.820","Text":"the multiplication so on the other side it becomes a 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it\u0027s a division."},{"Start":"03:50.333 ","End":"03:55.790","Text":"I get that x equals 10 divided by 20."},{"Start":"03:55.790 ","End":"03:59.435","Text":"In other words, x equals 1/2."},{"Start":"03:59.435 ","End":"04:02.120","Text":"That\u0027s that one. Next one,"},{"Start":"04:02.120 ","End":"04:03.925","Text":"that would be number 3,"},{"Start":"04:03.925 ","End":"04:07.980","Text":"5 times 5 minus x,"},{"Start":"04:07.980 ","End":"04:15.540","Text":"minus 5 minus 2x out of 5 there, equals 4x."},{"Start":"04:15.540 ","End":"04:17.895","Text":"Better scroll a bit,"},{"Start":"04:17.895 ","End":"04:20.760","Text":"get some extra room there."},{"Start":"04:20.760 ","End":"04:29.555","Text":"Again, expanding 5 times 5 is 25, then minus 5x."},{"Start":"04:29.555 ","End":"04:31.280","Text":"A minus is like a minus 1,"},{"Start":"04:31.280 ","End":"04:34.685","Text":"or you can just remember that a minus reverses all the signs."},{"Start":"04:34.685 ","End":"04:39.220","Text":"It\u0027s a minus 5 and a plus 2x."},{"Start":"04:39.220 ","End":"04:42.995","Text":"I\u0027m going to bring the 4x over at the same time."},{"Start":"04:42.995 ","End":"04:48.070","Text":"Minus 4x equals 0."},{"Start":"04:48.070 ","End":"04:51.405","Text":"I already brought over this."},{"Start":"04:51.405 ","End":"04:52.850","Text":"Everything\u0027s on the left,"},{"Start":"04:52.850 ","End":"04:55.670","Text":"but the numbers are going to have to go to the right."},{"Start":"04:55.670 ","End":"04:58.400","Text":"This will have to go to the other side and this will have to"},{"Start":"04:58.400 ","End":"05:01.190","Text":"go to the other side. What do we have?"},{"Start":"05:01.190 ","End":"05:04.880","Text":"We have minus 5x from here,"},{"Start":"05:04.880 ","End":"05:08.180","Text":"plus 2x minus 4x."},{"Start":"05:08.180 ","End":"05:10.415","Text":"That\u0027s the x terms."},{"Start":"05:10.415 ","End":"05:13.220","Text":"Then we get on the other side,"},{"Start":"05:13.220 ","End":"05:18.340","Text":"minus 25 plus 5."},{"Start":"05:18.340 ","End":"05:21.135","Text":"If we collect here, let\u0027s see."},{"Start":"05:21.135 ","End":"05:26.100","Text":"Minus 5, minus 4 is minus 9,"},{"Start":"05:26.100 ","End":"05:30.480","Text":"plus 2 is minus 7,"},{"Start":"05:30.480 ","End":"05:38.140","Text":"and on the other side we have minus 25 plus 5 is minus 20."},{"Start":"05:38.140 ","End":"05:40.510","Text":"We have a multiplication here."},{"Start":"05:40.510 ","End":"05:44.725","Text":"We want to bring the minus 7 to the other side in the denominator."},{"Start":"05:44.725 ","End":"05:50.830","Text":"Then we get that x is equal to minus 20 over minus"},{"Start":"05:50.830 ","End":"05:57.595","Text":"7 and that is equal to minuses will cancel."},{"Start":"05:57.595 ","End":"06:00.445","Text":"Minus over minus is plus 20 over 7,"},{"Start":"06:00.445 ","End":"06:02.440","Text":"an improper fraction, let\u0027s see,"},{"Start":"06:02.440 ","End":"06:07.690","Text":"7 goes into 20 twice and 6 leftover 2 and 6/7."},{"Start":"06:07.690 ","End":"06:10.540","Text":"I was supposed to get a whole number I must have missed copied somewhere,"},{"Start":"06:10.540 ","End":"06:13.420","Text":"but never mind this is an exercise in its own right."},{"Start":"06:13.420 ","End":"06:18.440","Text":"This would be the answer for the way I wrote the exercise,"},{"Start":"06:18.440 ","End":"06:23.525","Text":"x equals 2 and 6/7 underline it and that\u0027s the third one."},{"Start":"06:23.525 ","End":"06:26.610","Text":"We have one more. Let\u0027s see."},{"Start":"06:26.610 ","End":"06:37.565","Text":"This one will be 7x minus 4x minus 6 times 3 equals 13."},{"Start":"06:37.565 ","End":"06:41.060","Text":"There\u0027s a slight difference here in that we usually"},{"Start":"06:41.060 ","End":"06:44.540","Text":"put the number on the left of the brackets here it\u0027s on the right."},{"Start":"06:44.540 ","End":"06:48.560","Text":"So I\u0027m just going to imagine that this 3 is not here,"},{"Start":"06:48.560 ","End":"06:50.059","Text":"but it\u0027s here instead,"},{"Start":"06:50.059 ","End":"06:51.230","Text":"it doesn\u0027t make any difference."},{"Start":"06:51.230 ","End":"06:53.680","Text":"I\u0027m just used to having the number on the left."},{"Start":"06:53.680 ","End":"06:57.600","Text":"Expand brackets 7x minus 3 times"},{"Start":"06:57.600 ","End":"07:05.085","Text":"4x minus 12x minus 3 times minus 6, plus 18."},{"Start":"07:05.085 ","End":"07:07.635","Text":"Then this is equal to 13."},{"Start":"07:07.635 ","End":"07:10.215","Text":"Let\u0027s see which has to switch sides,"},{"Start":"07:10.215 ","End":"07:11.840","Text":"x\u0027s are good on the left,"},{"Start":"07:11.840 ","End":"07:17.960","Text":"just the 18 has to go over so 7x minus 12x I can already do that."},{"Start":"07:17.960 ","End":"07:20.160","Text":"That\u0027s minus 5x."},{"Start":"07:21.460 ","End":"07:26.540","Text":"Here I have 13 minus 18,"},{"Start":"07:26.540 ","End":"07:30.455","Text":"which is minus 5."},{"Start":"07:30.455 ","End":"07:34.555","Text":"Now I can divide by minus 5."},{"Start":"07:34.555 ","End":"07:36.750","Text":"Let me copy it again, minus 5x."},{"Start":"07:36.750 ","End":"07:43.160","Text":"This is a multiplication so this can go over to the other side in the denominator."},{"Start":"07:43.160 ","End":"07:48.875","Text":"We get that x is equal to minus 5 over minus 5."},{"Start":"07:48.875 ","End":"07:51.425","Text":"Anything over itself is 1,"},{"Start":"07:51.425 ","End":"07:53.900","Text":"x is equal to 1."},{"Start":"07:53.900 ","End":"07:56.300","Text":"We\u0027re basically done with this set."},{"Start":"07:56.300 ","End":"08:01.190","Text":"But I\u0027ll tell you sometimes you should really check your answer by substituting."},{"Start":"08:01.190 ","End":"08:04.040","Text":"Let\u0027s do one by substitution here,"},{"Start":"08:04.040 ","End":"08:06.305","Text":"just to see that it really comes out."},{"Start":"08:06.305 ","End":"08:08.240","Text":"If you want to skip this bit, you may,"},{"Start":"08:08.240 ","End":"08:10.655","Text":"but I recommend not skipping."},{"Start":"08:10.655 ","End":"08:17.140","Text":"What I\u0027m about to do is check that x equals 1 works, 7 times 1."},{"Start":"08:17.140 ","End":"08:19.010","Text":"I\u0027m ignoring the orange bit."},{"Start":"08:19.010 ","End":"08:20.510","Text":"In fact, not to confuse."},{"Start":"08:20.510 ","End":"08:22.989","Text":"Here it\u0027s multiplied, you don\u0027t see it very well,"},{"Start":"08:22.989 ","End":"08:26.100","Text":"the dot there, minus, let\u0027s see,"},{"Start":"08:26.100 ","End":"08:30.690","Text":"4 times 1 minus 6 times 3,"},{"Start":"08:30.690 ","End":"08:31.926","Text":"is it equal to,"},{"Start":"08:31.926 ","End":"08:34.320","Text":"have to check, to 13?"},{"Start":"08:34.320 ","End":"08:43.200","Text":"Well, let\u0027s see. This is 7 and 4 minus 6 is minus 2."},{"Start":"08:43.200 ","End":"08:45.520","Text":"Just this bit."},{"Start":"08:45.530 ","End":"08:48.090","Text":"We have a minus,"},{"Start":"08:48.090 ","End":"08:51.030","Text":"minus 2 times 3."},{"Start":"08:51.030 ","End":"08:55.695","Text":"So we end up with 7 plus 2 times 3,"},{"Start":"08:55.695 ","End":"08:58.100","Text":"which is 7 plus 6,"},{"Start":"08:58.100 ","End":"09:05.225","Text":"I\u0027m going in the opposite direction somehow, which is 13."},{"Start":"09:05.225 ","End":"09:07.699","Text":"That is correct."},{"Start":"09:07.699 ","End":"09:11.525","Text":"We\u0027ve even checked and you should do this from time to time."},{"Start":"09:11.525 ","End":"09:13.429","Text":"You could do it on every exercise,"},{"Start":"09:13.429 ","End":"09:17.270","Text":"substitute what you get in the original equation and see if it works."},{"Start":"09:17.270 ","End":"09:21.720","Text":"See if you get a true statement. Now I\u0027m done."}],"ID":4933},{"Watched":false,"Name":"Linear in One Unknown - Part 3","Duration":"5m 35s","ChapterTopicVideoID":4938,"CourseChapterTopicPlaylistID":56124,"HasSubtitles":true,"ThumbnailPath":"https://www.proprep.com/Images/Videos_Thumbnails/4938.jpeg","UploadDate":"2020-09-30T07:26:35.3630000","DurationForVideoObject":"PT5M35S","Description":null,"VideoComments":[],"Subtitles":[{"Start":"00:00.000 ","End":"00:02.070","Text":"Is a continuation of the previous one,"},{"Start":"00:02.070 ","End":"00:03.450","Text":"that was already continued."},{"Start":"00:03.450 ","End":"00:06.405","Text":"I mean we\u0027re continuing again."},{"Start":"00:06.405 ","End":"00:10.560","Text":"I remember we did exercises 1-4 in the previous clip,"},{"Start":"00:10.560 ","End":"00:13.110","Text":"which means that we\u0027re going to continue with number 5."},{"Start":"00:13.110 ","End":"00:17.565","Text":"Number 5 says that x times x minus"},{"Start":"00:17.565 ","End":"00:24.315","Text":"5=x^2 minus 7x plus 8."},{"Start":"00:24.315 ","End":"00:26.580","Text":"Once again, we\u0027re going be expanding"},{"Start":"00:26.580 ","End":"00:30.075","Text":"brackets which is on the left where we have brackets."},{"Start":"00:30.075 ","End":"00:34.155","Text":"X times x is x^2."},{"Start":"00:34.155 ","End":"00:41.205","Text":"x times minus 5 is minus 5x and this just copied just as it is."},{"Start":"00:41.205 ","End":"00:46.085","Text":"Now, here something funny because I remember telling you that"},{"Start":"00:46.085 ","End":"00:51.395","Text":"linear equations should not have x^2 in it.. Well,"},{"Start":"00:51.395 ","End":"00:55.175","Text":"you\u0027re right, and in a way this does have x^2 in it,"},{"Start":"00:55.175 ","End":"00:56.660","Text":"but if you look,"},{"Start":"00:56.660 ","End":"01:00.020","Text":"I can subtract x^2 from both sides."},{"Start":"01:00.020 ","End":"01:04.505","Text":"That I\u0027m subtracting x^2 from left and from right."},{"Start":"01:04.505 ","End":"01:05.915","Text":"If I do that,"},{"Start":"01:05.915 ","End":"01:08.885","Text":"this will just disappear and this will just disappear."},{"Start":"01:08.885 ","End":"01:11.720","Text":"It\u0027s quite common to see a thing like this and just put"},{"Start":"01:11.720 ","End":"01:15.410","Text":"a line through and a line through to say this cancels with this."},{"Start":"01:15.410 ","End":"01:20.090","Text":"What we get is just minus 5x equals"},{"Start":"01:20.090 ","End":"01:26.570","Text":"minus 7x plus 8 and this is a linear equation in 1 variable."},{"Start":"01:26.570 ","End":"01:29.120","Text":"There\u0027s no x^2 in it or anything."},{"Start":"01:29.120 ","End":"01:33.410","Text":"All I have to do now is collect like terms,"},{"Start":"01:33.410 ","End":"01:37.220","Text":"and I\u0027ll move this to the other side and it becomes a plus,"},{"Start":"01:37.220 ","End":"01:42.300","Text":"so minus 5x plus 7x is equal to 8."},{"Start":"01:42.300 ","End":"01:45.570","Text":"Collect the x\u0027s minus 5 plus 7 is 2,"},{"Start":"01:45.570 ","End":"01:47.520","Text":"2x is 8,"},{"Start":"01:47.520 ","End":"01:49.950","Text":"and dividing by 2,"},{"Start":"01:49.950 ","End":"01:54.075","Text":"x is 8/2,"},{"Start":"01:54.075 ","End":"01:57.340","Text":"so x is 4."},{"Start":"01:57.340 ","End":"02:00.980","Text":"What we learned here is that sometimes it might"},{"Start":"02:00.980 ","End":"02:04.705","Text":"appear that it\u0027s not a linear equation and we have an x^2 in it,"},{"Start":"02:04.705 ","End":"02:07.020","Text":"but an actual fact that canceled."},{"Start":"02:07.020 ","End":"02:11.150","Text":"Equations that do have x^2 in them are quadratic equations,"},{"Start":"02:11.150 ","End":"02:13.565","Text":"which we will learn but not now."},{"Start":"02:13.565 ","End":"02:16.750","Text":"I\u0027ll just erase this and then go on to the next."},{"Start":"02:16.750 ","End":"02:18.995","Text":"It\u0027ll be number 6."},{"Start":"02:18.995 ","End":"02:24.165","Text":"7 minus x times 1 minus"},{"Start":"02:24.165 ","End":"02:29.700","Text":"x minus x minus 3^2,"},{"Start":"02:29.700 ","End":"02:32.075","Text":"and this is equal to 0."},{"Start":"02:32.075 ","End":"02:34.330","Text":"We need to expand brackets here,"},{"Start":"02:34.330 ","End":"02:36.800","Text":"so remember that each one goes with each one,"},{"Start":"02:36.800 ","End":"02:38.330","Text":"this with this, this with this,"},{"Start":"02:38.330 ","End":"02:40.205","Text":"this with this, and this with this."},{"Start":"02:40.205 ","End":"02:43.010","Text":"Also, I want to remind you that we did have"},{"Start":"02:43.010 ","End":"02:47.210","Text":"this special binomial products or expansions,"},{"Start":"02:47.210 ","End":"02:53.295","Text":"that we have the formula that a minus b^2 is"},{"Start":"02:53.295 ","End":"02:59.900","Text":"a^2 minus 2ab plus b^2 and I\u0027m going to apply this formula to the second bit."},{"Start":"02:59.900 ","End":"03:01.405","Text":"But let\u0027s start with this one,"},{"Start":"03:01.405 ","End":"03:03.855","Text":"7 times 1 is 7."},{"Start":"03:03.855 ","End":"03:07.305","Text":"7 times minus x minus 7x."},{"Start":"03:07.305 ","End":"03:10.710","Text":"You know me and my 7\u0027s are the European style,"},{"Start":"03:10.710 ","End":"03:13.620","Text":"so that looks odd, that\u0027s a 7."},{"Start":"03:13.620 ","End":"03:17.985","Text":"Then minus x times 1 is minus x."},{"Start":"03:17.985 ","End":"03:22.695","Text":"Minus x times minus x is plus x^2."},{"Start":"03:22.695 ","End":"03:25.110","Text":"Once again, we note an x^2 here."},{"Start":"03:25.110 ","End":"03:27.500","Text":"It better cancel, otherwise we can\u0027t do it."},{"Start":"03:27.500 ","End":"03:30.043","Text":"Let\u0027s continue. Minus,"},{"Start":"03:30.043 ","End":"03:32.870","Text":"now the x minus 3^2 I\u0027ll use with this formula,"},{"Start":"03:32.870 ","End":"03:35.650","Text":"but I\u0027ll need to put everything in the brackets."},{"Start":"03:35.650 ","End":"03:38.040","Text":"X is in the role of a,"},{"Start":"03:38.040 ","End":"03:40.080","Text":"3 in the role of b,"},{"Start":"03:40.080 ","End":"03:48.570","Text":"a^2 means x^2 minus 2ab is minus 2 times x times 3,"},{"Start":"03:48.570 ","End":"03:52.650","Text":"and then plus b^2 is plus 3^2."},{"Start":"03:52.650 ","End":"03:56.065","Text":"All this, close brackets,"},{"Start":"03:56.065 ","End":"03:58.370","Text":"is equal to 0."},{"Start":"03:58.370 ","End":"04:00.995","Text":"Now I have to open this bracket,"},{"Start":"04:00.995 ","End":"04:04.030","Text":"there\u0027s a minus in front or minus 1."},{"Start":"04:04.030 ","End":"04:06.030","Text":"This, we just copy the first bit,"},{"Start":"04:06.030 ","End":"04:11.700","Text":"7 minus 7x minus x plus x^2 and minus 1 times,"},{"Start":"04:11.700 ","End":"04:16.010","Text":"or you could just simply say a minus in front of a bracket reverses all the signs."},{"Start":"04:16.010 ","End":"04:22.310","Text":"Either way, it\u0027s minus x^2 plus 2 times x times 3 is 6x,"},{"Start":"04:22.310 ","End":"04:26.325","Text":"and then minus 3^2 is 9."},{"Start":"04:26.325 ","End":"04:29.750","Text":"This is equal to 0. Everything\u0027s on the left."},{"Start":"04:29.750 ","End":"04:32.725","Text":"I want to put the numbers on the right."},{"Start":"04:32.725 ","End":"04:34.680","Text":"I\u0027ll just copy the x\u0027s,"},{"Start":"04:34.680 ","End":"04:36.410","Text":"here I have an x."},{"Start":"04:36.410 ","End":"04:38.480","Text":"Make sure not to miss anything."},{"Start":"04:38.480 ","End":"04:40.885","Text":"This is a minus x,"},{"Start":"04:40.885 ","End":"04:42.795","Text":"and I forgot to say of course,"},{"Start":"04:42.795 ","End":"04:48.990","Text":"that plus x^2 and minus x^2 cancel each other because that\u0027s 0."},{"Start":"04:48.990 ","End":"04:54.140","Text":"Back to this, we have the minus x and then plus 6x,"},{"Start":"04:54.140 ","End":"04:58.610","Text":"that\u0027s all the x\u0027s on the left and our numbers on the right, what do I have?"},{"Start":"04:58.610 ","End":"05:00.830","Text":"I have a 7, so it\u0027s minus 7."},{"Start":"05:00.830 ","End":"05:05.879","Text":"We have here a plus 9 because minus 9 goes over as plus."},{"Start":"05:05.879 ","End":"05:10.005","Text":"Let\u0027s see how many x\u0027s minus 7 minus 1 plus 6,"},{"Start":"05:10.005 ","End":"05:18.185","Text":"I make it minus 2x and minus 7 plus 9 is positive 2."},{"Start":"05:18.185 ","End":"05:22.840","Text":"Now all I have to do is divide both sides by this minus 2,"},{"Start":"05:22.840 ","End":"05:26.955","Text":"and I\u0027ve got x=2 over minus 2."},{"Start":"05:26.955 ","End":"05:31.050","Text":"Plus over minus is minus and 2 over 2 is 1,"},{"Start":"05:31.050 ","End":"05:36.310","Text":"so x is equal to minus 1 and we\u0027re done."}],"ID":4934},{"Watched":false,"Name":"Exercise 1","Duration":"6m 28s","ChapterTopicVideoID":4932,"CourseChapterTopicPlaylistID":56124,"HasSubtitles":true,"ThumbnailPath":"https://www.proprep.com/Images/Videos_Thumbnails/4932.jpeg","UploadDate":"2020-09-30T07:28:53.2600000","DurationForVideoObject":"PT6M28S","Description":null,"VideoComments":[],"Subtitles":[{"Start":"00:00.000 ","End":"00:04.260","Text":"In this exercise, we have to solve the following equations,"},{"Start":"00:04.260 ","End":"00:08.475","Text":"a, b, c and d. Let\u0027s take them one at a time."},{"Start":"00:08.475 ","End":"00:11.835","Text":"First one, 6x plus 2 equals 8."},{"Start":"00:11.835 ","End":"00:16.335","Text":"Now I\u0027m going to do the long method and then we\u0027ll do the shortcut method."},{"Start":"00:16.335 ","End":"00:18.195","Text":"If 2 things are equal,"},{"Start":"00:18.195 ","End":"00:20.910","Text":"then I can do the same thing to both sides."},{"Start":"00:20.910 ","End":"00:25.650","Text":"I\u0027m going to subtract 2 from both sides and so I get"},{"Start":"00:25.650 ","End":"00:31.500","Text":"6x plus 2 minus 2 equals 8 minus 2."},{"Start":"00:31.500 ","End":"00:35.370","Text":"You might ask, why did I know to subtract 2 from both sides?"},{"Start":"00:35.370 ","End":"00:38.760","Text":"Well, I wanted to leave just x\u0027s here and just numbers"},{"Start":"00:38.760 ","End":"00:42.810","Text":"here and I saw that this 2 is getting in the way so I subtracted 2."},{"Start":"00:42.810 ","End":"00:47.340","Text":"After I subtract 2 the 2 minus 2 is nothing so I just"},{"Start":"00:47.340 ","End":"00:53.410","Text":"get that 6x is equal to 8 minus 2 is 6."},{"Start":"00:53.410 ","End":"00:56.300","Text":"Now, here\u0027s an equation,"},{"Start":"00:56.300 ","End":"01:01.925","Text":"so I can do the same thing to both sides and I can divide both sides by 6."},{"Start":"01:01.925 ","End":"01:08.400","Text":"If I divide both sides by 6 and I\u0027ll just slightly skip a step,"},{"Start":"01:08.400 ","End":"01:10.635","Text":"but I won\u0027t say 6x over 6."},{"Start":"01:10.635 ","End":"01:14.070","Text":"You can already see that 6x over 6 is going to be"},{"Start":"01:14.070 ","End":"01:18.820","Text":"just x and 6 divided by 6 we can do in our heads is equal to 1."},{"Start":"01:18.820 ","End":"01:26.165","Text":"But if we were doing it long handed we\u0027d write 6x over 6 equals 6 over 6 and so on."},{"Start":"01:26.165 ","End":"01:32.420","Text":"Now, the quicker way of doing things is there are some rules of thumb that you can use."},{"Start":"01:32.420 ","End":"01:35.300","Text":"For example, I start from here again,"},{"Start":"01:35.300 ","End":"01:40.895","Text":"6x plus 2 equals 8 and normally what we would do is say, okay,"},{"Start":"01:40.895 ","End":"01:42.890","Text":"the opposite of addition is subtraction,"},{"Start":"01:42.890 ","End":"01:48.005","Text":"I can move the 2 over to the other side if I do the opposite, which is subtract,"},{"Start":"01:48.005 ","End":"01:53.990","Text":"so I would say straightaway that 6x equals 8 minus 2 and I could even write here,"},{"Start":"01:53.990 ","End":"01:55.565","Text":"say that equals 6."},{"Start":"01:55.565 ","End":"01:59.155","Text":"Maybe I\u0027ll write it on another line, 6x equals 6."},{"Start":"01:59.155 ","End":"02:02.510","Text":"Now here when I say 6x it\u0027s really a multiplication."},{"Start":"02:02.510 ","End":"02:05.030","Text":"It\u0027s 6 times x, so again,"},{"Start":"02:05.030 ","End":"02:09.770","Text":"we can use the trick of moving something to the other side and doing the opposite."},{"Start":"02:09.770 ","End":"02:12.170","Text":"Instead of multiplying on the other side,"},{"Start":"02:12.170 ","End":"02:13.580","Text":"it will be dividing."},{"Start":"02:13.580 ","End":"02:18.200","Text":"X will equal 6 divided by 6,"},{"Start":"02:18.200 ","End":"02:20.970","Text":"so I can write it 6 colon 6."},{"Start":"02:20.970 ","End":"02:24.180","Text":"I\u0027ll write the division this way and 6 over 6 is 1"},{"Start":"02:24.180 ","End":"02:29.375","Text":"so x is equal to 1 because it comes out the same answer both ways."},{"Start":"02:29.375 ","End":"02:33.910","Text":"Next one,7 minus 2x equals 7."},{"Start":"02:33.910 ","End":"02:36.870","Text":"What I\u0027d like is x\u0027s on the left and numbers on the right,"},{"Start":"02:36.870 ","End":"02:40.514","Text":"that\u0027s my idea so I was going to subtract 7 from both sides."},{"Start":"02:40.514 ","End":"02:46.650","Text":"I say at the side that I\u0027m going to subtract 7 and so now I get 7"},{"Start":"02:46.650 ","End":"02:54.660","Text":"minus 2x minus 7 equals 7 minus 7 and notice this is the style of 7."},{"Start":"02:54.660 ","End":"02:58.995","Text":"I use its European no confusion."},{"Start":"02:58.995 ","End":"03:07.380","Text":"7 minus 7 is nothing so I have just minus 2x and 7 minus 7 is 0."},{"Start":"03:07.380 ","End":"03:11.360","Text":"I\u0027m going to proceed mechanically even though there\u0027s a shortcut here,"},{"Start":"03:11.360 ","End":"03:12.605","Text":"but I\u0027m just going to say,"},{"Start":"03:12.605 ","End":"03:15.350","Text":"okay, I want to have just x on the left."},{"Start":"03:15.350 ","End":"03:20.345","Text":"I\u0027m going to divide both sides by minus 2,"},{"Start":"03:20.345 ","End":"03:29.080","Text":"so I get minus 2x over minus 2 is just x and 0 divided by minus 2,"},{"Start":"03:29.080 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it will be a division."},{"Start":"04:09.155 ","End":"04:16.855","Text":"So x will equal 0 divided by minus 2 and then that is equal to 0."},{"Start":"04:16.855 ","End":"04:23.390","Text":"Continuing with c and d. I think you get the idea,"},{"Start":"04:23.390 ","End":"04:26.345","Text":"you know what, I\u0027m going to move to the quick method already."},{"Start":"04:26.345 ","End":"04:30.605","Text":"2x plus x equals 24."},{"Start":"04:30.605 ","End":"04:34.490","Text":"First of all, I have to collect like terms this is something we"},{"Start":"04:34.490 ","End":"04:38.965","Text":"didn\u0027t have in these 2 and so collecting like terms,"},{"Start":"04:38.965 ","End":"04:42.825","Text":"the 2x and the x like 2x plus 1x,"},{"Start":"04:42.825 ","End":"04:46.440","Text":"2 apples plus 1 apple is 3 apples."},{"Start":"04:46.440 ","End":"04:51.225","Text":"2x plus 1x is 3x is 24."},{"Start":"04:51.225 ","End":"04:54.095","Text":"Then I say bring the 3 over to the other side,"},{"Start":"04:54.095 ","End":"04:56.914","Text":"because here it\u0027s multiplication on the other side,"},{"Start":"04:56.914 ","End":"05:00.975","Text":"it will be division, divided by 3."},{"Start":"05:00.975 ","End":"05:06.965","Text":"Then I would say either on the same line or on the next line, x=8."},{"Start":"05:06.965 ","End":"05:12.605","Text":"I should really be coloring the solutions so let\u0027s do that."},{"Start":"05:12.605 ","End":"05:14.990","Text":"So x is equal to 1."},{"Start":"05:14.990 ","End":"05:20.210","Text":"Same thing here x equals 0 confirmed."},{"Start":"05:20.210 ","End":"05:23.600","Text":"Here just did it one way, x equals 8."},{"Start":"05:23.600 ","End":"05:27.769","Text":"Now let\u0027s go and do number d. Gradually"},{"Start":"05:27.769 ","End":"05:31.580","Text":"things get a little bit more complicated as you get used to them."},{"Start":"05:31.580 ","End":"05:35.915","Text":"In this case, we have x\u0027s and numbers on both sides,"},{"Start":"05:35.915 ","End":"05:41.295","Text":"so what we do is we can do 2 things at once."},{"Start":"05:41.295 ","End":"05:46.910","Text":"We can throw the 6 over to this side and at the same time,"},{"Start":"05:46.910 ","End":"05:50.030","Text":"I can throw the x over to this side."},{"Start":"05:50.030 ","End":"05:52.895","Text":"I prefer the x\u0027s on the left and the numbers on the right,"},{"Start":"05:52.895 ","End":"05:55.205","Text":"but it could be the other way."},{"Start":"05:55.205 ","End":"05:59.330","Text":"What I get is because this was an addition,"},{"Start":"05:59.330 ","End":"06:01.250","Text":"when it goes over to the left,"},{"Start":"06:01.250 ","End":"06:03.110","Text":"it becomes a subtraction."},{"Start":"06:03.110 ","End":"06:06.580","Text":"The same thing on the right here I had the 8,"},{"Start":"06:06.580 ","End":"06:10.570","Text":"but the 6 when I throw it over becomes minus 6."},{"Start":"06:10.570 ","End":"06:13.815","Text":"Now I collect like terms 2x minus x,"},{"Start":"06:13.815 ","End":"06:20.595","Text":"2 apples minus 1 apple is just 1 apple and 8 minus 6 is equal to"},{"Start":"06:20.595 ","End":"06:28.720","Text":"2 and so that is the answer and that\u0027s done."}],"ID":4935},{"Watched":false,"Name":"Exercise 2","Duration":"3m 56s","ChapterTopicVideoID":4933,"CourseChapterTopicPlaylistID":56124,"HasSubtitles":true,"ThumbnailPath":"https://www.proprep.com/Images/Videos_Thumbnails/4933.jpeg","UploadDate":"2020-09-30T07:30:01.9470000","DurationForVideoObject":"PT3M56S","Description":null,"VideoComments":[],"Subtitles":[{"Start":"00:00.000 ","End":"00:03.090","Text":"In this exercise, we have to solve the equations."},{"Start":"00:03.090 ","End":"00:06.180","Text":"There\u0027s 3 of them. I have copied them over here."},{"Start":"00:06.180 ","End":"00:08.445","Text":"Start with a,"},{"Start":"00:08.445 ","End":"00:10.260","Text":"and just to make things easier,"},{"Start":"00:10.260 ","End":"00:12.675","Text":"let me mark like terms."},{"Start":"00:12.675 ","End":"00:17.310","Text":"I\u0027ll let the terms with x be the apples in green,"},{"Start":"00:17.310 ","End":"00:22.725","Text":"and I\u0027ll let the numbers be oranges,"},{"Start":"00:22.725 ","End":"00:25.215","Text":"and that will be in orange of course."},{"Start":"00:25.215 ","End":"00:27.953","Text":"Now, what we want is to keep the apples on the left,"},{"Start":"00:27.953 ","End":"00:30.285","Text":"and the oranges on the right."},{"Start":"00:30.285 ","End":"00:34.013","Text":"We already have minus 7x,"},{"Start":"00:34.013 ","End":"00:36.555","Text":"and the plus 2x on the left."},{"Start":"00:36.555 ","End":"00:38.780","Text":"But I want the 4x also on the left."},{"Start":"00:38.780 ","End":"00:40.775","Text":"Since it switches sides,"},{"Start":"00:40.775 ","End":"00:45.175","Text":"it changes to a negative 4x minus 4x."},{"Start":"00:45.175 ","End":"00:50.210","Text":"Similarly, I have on the right a minus 13,"},{"Start":"00:50.210 ","End":"00:52.550","Text":"but I also want to throw the 5 over to the right,"},{"Start":"00:52.550 ","End":"00:53.570","Text":"so instead of plus 5,"},{"Start":"00:53.570 ","End":"00:55.550","Text":"it becomes minus 5."},{"Start":"00:55.550 ","End":"00:57.275","Text":"Now we do the arithmetic."},{"Start":"00:57.275 ","End":"00:59.325","Text":"We have x\u0027s only."},{"Start":"00:59.325 ","End":"01:00.770","Text":"How many x\u0027s do we have?"},{"Start":"01:00.770 ","End":"01:02.690","Text":"We have minus 7 plus 2,"},{"Start":"01:02.690 ","End":"01:04.100","Text":"minus 4 of them."},{"Start":"01:04.100 ","End":"01:05.630","Text":"Minus 7, plus 4,"},{"Start":"01:05.630 ","End":"01:06.920","Text":"minus 2, we can collect."},{"Start":"01:06.920 ","End":"01:08.555","Text":"We\u0027ll do the negatives first."},{"Start":"01:08.555 ","End":"01:11.570","Text":"It\u0027s minus 11 and the positive is 2."},{"Start":"01:11.570 ","End":"01:14.135","Text":"The difference between 11 and 2 is 9,"},{"Start":"01:14.135 ","End":"01:17.480","Text":"but it\u0027s minus 9 because the negatives win."},{"Start":"01:17.480 ","End":"01:22.560","Text":"Minus 9x is equal to,"},{"Start":"01:22.560 ","End":"01:24.060","Text":"now here we have 2 negatives,"},{"Start":"01:24.060 ","End":"01:26.479","Text":"so we add 13 and 5 is 18,"},{"Start":"01:26.479 ","End":"01:29.435","Text":"but because it\u0027s negative, it\u0027s minus 18."},{"Start":"01:29.435 ","End":"01:34.690","Text":"Now, divide both sides by minus 9."},{"Start":"01:34.690 ","End":"01:38.585","Text":"If I divide this by minus 9, I\u0027m just left with x."},{"Start":"01:38.585 ","End":"01:42.560","Text":"Here, I could do it at the side, or we can do it in our heads."},{"Start":"01:42.560 ","End":"01:44.840","Text":"Minus 18 over minus 9,"},{"Start":"01:44.840 ","End":"01:46.775","Text":"minus over minus is plus,"},{"Start":"01:46.775 ","End":"01:49.880","Text":"18 over 9 is 2."},{"Start":"01:49.880 ","End":"01:52.430","Text":"This is the answer."},{"Start":"01:52.430 ","End":"01:58.340","Text":"Next one. Better scroll up a bit. There we are."},{"Start":"01:58.340 ","End":"02:00.950","Text":"I\u0027m not going to use colors this time."},{"Start":"02:00.950 ","End":"02:04.265","Text":"We just take the x\u0027s to the left and numbers to the right."},{"Start":"02:04.265 ","End":"02:09.190","Text":"What already was on the left is 6x minus 7x, this and this."},{"Start":"02:09.190 ","End":"02:11.925","Text":"I got to throw these two over to the left."},{"Start":"02:11.925 ","End":"02:15.870","Text":"This becomes minus x and plus 5,"},{"Start":"02:15.870 ","End":"02:17.340","Text":"we switch sign."},{"Start":"02:17.340 ","End":"02:18.720","Text":"Now, numbers."},{"Start":"02:18.720 ","End":"02:20.790","Text":"We already had minus 7 here."},{"Start":"02:20.790 ","End":"02:23.130","Text":"You want to throw the 3 and the 5 over,"},{"Start":"02:23.130 ","End":"02:26.755","Text":"so it\u0027s plus 3 minus 5."},{"Start":"02:26.755 ","End":"02:29.060","Text":"Now, we just collect like terms."},{"Start":"02:29.060 ","End":"02:30.830","Text":"Here are all the x\u0027s,"},{"Start":"02:30.830 ","End":"02:33.860","Text":"so what we have to do is 6 minus 7,"},{"Start":"02:33.860 ","End":"02:35.615","Text":"minus 1, plus 5."},{"Start":"02:35.615 ","End":"02:38.480","Text":"I\u0027ll use the technique of taking the positives first,"},{"Start":"02:38.480 ","End":"02:40.085","Text":"6 and 5 is 11,"},{"Start":"02:40.085 ","End":"02:42.750","Text":"less 7 and 1 is 8,"},{"Start":"02:42.750 ","End":"02:44.970","Text":"11 minus 8 is 3."},{"Start":"02:44.970 ","End":"02:46.815","Text":"We\u0027re left with 3x."},{"Start":"02:46.815 ","End":"02:52.040","Text":"Here, we have negative 12 and plus 3,"},{"Start":"02:52.040 ","End":"02:56.640","Text":"so all together negative minus 9."},{"Start":"02:56.640 ","End":"02:59.840","Text":"Then we divide by 3 both sides."},{"Start":"02:59.840 ","End":"03:06.415","Text":"We\u0027re left with x equals minus 9 over 3, is minus 3."},{"Start":"03:06.415 ","End":"03:10.005","Text":"Next, x\u0027s on the left,"},{"Start":"03:10.005 ","End":"03:14.475","Text":"that\u0027s minus 5x, and here, plus 3x."},{"Start":"03:14.475 ","End":"03:16.050","Text":"Numbers on the right,"},{"Start":"03:16.050 ","End":"03:17.595","Text":"we already had 8."},{"Start":"03:17.595 ","End":"03:19.020","Text":"Let me throw over this."},{"Start":"03:19.020 ","End":"03:21.855","Text":"Minus 2, minus 7."},{"Start":"03:21.855 ","End":"03:24.885","Text":"Collect like terms. How many x\u0027s?"},{"Start":"03:24.885 ","End":"03:27.030","Text":"Minus 5 plus 3 of them."},{"Start":"03:27.030 ","End":"03:29.025","Text":"That\u0027s minus 2 of them."},{"Start":"03:29.025 ","End":"03:31.270","Text":"Numbers, 8 minus 2,"},{"Start":"03:31.270 ","End":"03:34.080","Text":"minus 7 is 6."},{"Start":"03:34.080 ","End":"03:36.985","Text":"6 minus 7 is minus 1."},{"Start":"03:36.985 ","End":"03:40.355","Text":"Divide both sides by minus 2,"},{"Start":"03:40.355 ","End":"03:46.245","Text":"and we\u0027ve got x equals minus 1 over minus 2 is plus,"},{"Start":"03:46.245 ","End":"03:47.900","Text":"but it\u0027s 1/2,"},{"Start":"03:47.900 ","End":"03:49.115","Text":"which is a half."},{"Start":"03:49.115 ","End":"03:51.878","Text":"X is equal to a half,"},{"Start":"03:51.878 ","End":"03:56.710","Text":"and I\u0027ll highlight it and we are done."}],"ID":4936},{"Watched":false,"Name":"Exercise 3","Duration":"5m ","ChapterTopicVideoID":4934,"CourseChapterTopicPlaylistID":56124,"HasSubtitles":true,"ThumbnailPath":"https://www.proprep.com/Images/Videos_Thumbnails/4934.jpeg","UploadDate":"2020-09-30T07:34:12.7800000","DurationForVideoObject":"PT5M","Description":null,"VideoComments":[],"Subtitles":[{"Start":"00:00.000 ","End":"00:02.460","Text":"We have to solve these equations here."},{"Start":"00:02.460 ","End":"00:05.880","Text":"There\u0027s 4 of them and we\u0027ll scroll down."},{"Start":"00:05.880 ","End":"00:08.205","Text":"That should do it for now."},{"Start":"00:08.205 ","End":"00:10.590","Text":"Let\u0027s start with the first 1."},{"Start":"00:10.590 ","End":"00:12.795","Text":"Let\u0027s open the brackets first,"},{"Start":"00:12.795 ","End":"00:16.320","Text":"3 times x and then 3 times minus 1."},{"Start":"00:16.320 ","End":"00:19.605","Text":"It\u0027s 3x minus 3,"},{"Start":"00:19.605 ","End":"00:22.314","Text":"minus 4 equals 2,"},{"Start":"00:22.314 ","End":"00:25.710","Text":"x\u0027s on the left numbers on the right."},{"Start":"00:25.710 ","End":"00:29.115","Text":"3x is all alone with the x\u0027s."},{"Start":"00:29.115 ","End":"00:31.020","Text":"Everything else goes to the right,"},{"Start":"00:31.020 ","End":"00:35.805","Text":"so it\u0027s 2 plus 3 plus 4."},{"Start":"00:35.805 ","End":"00:38.149","Text":"I\u0027ll continue on the same line,"},{"Start":"00:38.149 ","End":"00:39.840","Text":"it\u0027s equal to 9."},{"Start":"00:39.840 ","End":"00:42.255","Text":"Then we divide by 3."},{"Start":"00:42.255 ","End":"00:46.995","Text":"Then we get x equals 9 divided by 3 is 3."},{"Start":"00:46.995 ","End":"00:50.225","Text":"That does a. Now onto b."},{"Start":"00:50.225 ","End":"00:52.421","Text":"Once again, we have to open brackets,"},{"Start":"00:52.421 ","End":"00:55.595","Text":"so 7x is here and I can either"},{"Start":"00:55.595 ","End":"00:59.450","Text":"put a minus and then the brackets and just multiply it by 4,"},{"Start":"00:59.450 ","End":"01:05.030","Text":"or I can just straightaway multiply everything by negative 4 by minus 4,"},{"Start":"01:05.030 ","End":"01:07.455","Text":"which is probably shorter."},{"Start":"01:07.455 ","End":"01:12.165","Text":"Minus 4 times 3, is minus 12."},{"Start":"01:12.165 ","End":"01:15.570","Text":"Minus 4 times minus 4x,"},{"Start":"01:15.570 ","End":"01:17.115","Text":"4 times 4 is 16,"},{"Start":"01:17.115 ","End":"01:24.320","Text":"it\u0027s plus 16x because minus times minus is plus is equal to minus x."},{"Start":"01:24.320 ","End":"01:27.290","Text":"Now, we do the collecting like terms."},{"Start":"01:27.290 ","End":"01:28.940","Text":"x\u0027s on the left,"},{"Start":"01:28.940 ","End":"01:30.740","Text":"numbers on the right."},{"Start":"01:30.740 ","End":"01:35.930","Text":"I have 7x plus 16 x and then plus"},{"Start":"01:35.930 ","End":"01:42.200","Text":"x and the minus 12 on the right becomes plus 12."},{"Start":"01:42.200 ","End":"01:45.950","Text":"Continue over here. How many x\u0027s do we have?"},{"Start":"01:45.950 ","End":"01:55.940","Text":"7 plus 16 plus 1 is 24. x equals 12 then dividing by 24,"},{"Start":"01:55.940 ","End":"02:00.620","Text":"I just get x is 12 over 24."},{"Start":"02:00.620 ","End":"02:05.510","Text":"But we can cancel because 12 goes into 24 twice,"},{"Start":"02:05.510 ","End":"02:10.955","Text":"you end up with x equals 1.5. There we are."},{"Start":"02:10.955 ","End":"02:16.265","Text":"The next, distributive law, expand brackets."},{"Start":"02:16.265 ","End":"02:19.205","Text":"6 times 4 is 24."},{"Start":"02:19.205 ","End":"02:22.990","Text":"6 times minus x minus 6x."},{"Start":"02:22.990 ","End":"02:25.335","Text":"Minus is like minus 1."},{"Start":"02:25.335 ","End":"02:28.170","Text":"Minus 1 times 6 is minus 6."},{"Start":"02:28.170 ","End":"02:31.500","Text":"Minus 1 times minus x is plus x."},{"Start":"02:31.500 ","End":"02:35.850","Text":"2 minuses multiplied give a plus equals 3x."},{"Start":"02:35.850 ","End":"02:37.620","Text":"Collecting like terms,"},{"Start":"02:37.620 ","End":"02:40.250","Text":"x\u0027s on the left, numbers on the right."},{"Start":"02:40.250 ","End":"02:46.993","Text":"Minus 6x plus x as this and this and this 1 with a reverse sign."},{"Start":"02:46.993 ","End":"02:48.810","Text":"Then numbers on the right,"},{"Start":"02:48.810 ","End":"02:52.960","Text":"so it\u0027s minus 24 plus 6."},{"Start":"02:52.960 ","End":"02:54.935","Text":"How many x\u0027s do we have?"},{"Start":"02:54.935 ","End":"03:03.015","Text":"Minus 6 plus 1 minus 3 is minus 8x."},{"Start":"03:03.015 ","End":"03:10.200","Text":"Minus 24 plus 6 is minus 18."},{"Start":"03:10.200 ","End":"03:12.345","Text":"Continuing here."},{"Start":"03:12.345 ","End":"03:16.755","Text":"If I divide by minus 8,"},{"Start":"03:16.755 ","End":"03:24.475","Text":"I get x equals minus 18 over minus 8,"},{"Start":"03:24.475 ","End":"03:29.950","Text":"so it\u0027s plus, but also I can divide by 2."},{"Start":"03:29.950 ","End":"03:38.638","Text":"It\u0027s 9 over 2 because I\u0027m canceling and I change the improper fraction to a mixed number."},{"Start":"03:38.638 ","End":"03:42.770","Text":"2 into 9 gives us 4 and 1 leftover, so it\u0027s 4.5."},{"Start":"03:42.770 ","End":"03:45.090","Text":"That\u0027s the answer,"},{"Start":"03:45.090 ","End":"03:49.910","Text":"x equals 4.5 although we could also write it as 9 over 2,"},{"Start":"03:49.910 ","End":"03:54.770","Text":"but it\u0027s considered better to write it as a mixed number."},{"Start":"03:54.770 ","End":"03:56.540","Text":"Now the last 1,"},{"Start":"03:56.540 ","End":"03:57.980","Text":"let\u0027s scroll a bit."},{"Start":"03:57.980 ","End":"04:02.585","Text":"Some room here. 5x, expand the brackets."},{"Start":"04:02.585 ","End":"04:07.580","Text":"I\u0027m going to imagine that the 4 is in front of the brackets."},{"Start":"04:07.580 ","End":"04:08.960","Text":"It doesn\u0027t matter that it\u0027s the right."},{"Start":"04:08.960 ","End":"04:10.310","Text":"The distributive law still works."},{"Start":"04:10.310 ","End":"04:12.170","Text":"You can just say it works this way,"},{"Start":"04:12.170 ","End":"04:14.375","Text":"this times this and this times this."},{"Start":"04:14.375 ","End":"04:20.105","Text":"It\u0027s minus 3x times 4 is minus 12x."},{"Start":"04:20.105 ","End":"04:24.200","Text":"Either way, if you imagine the 4 in front or not."},{"Start":"04:24.200 ","End":"04:27.305","Text":"Then let\u0027s imagine the 4 is here."},{"Start":"04:27.305 ","End":"04:36.290","Text":"Minus 4 times minus 7 is plus 28 is equal to 21."},{"Start":"04:36.290 ","End":"04:42.050","Text":"5 x minus 12x is equal to 21 minus 28."},{"Start":"04:42.050 ","End":"04:47.310","Text":"Here we have 5 minus 12 is minus is 7x."},{"Start":"04:47.310 ","End":"04:55.945","Text":"21 minus 28 is minus 7 divide by minus 7 and we just get that x is equal to 1."},{"Start":"04:55.945 ","End":"05:00.220","Text":"That concludes Part D. We are done."}],"ID":4937},{"Watched":false,"Name":"Exercise 4","Duration":"6m 8s","ChapterTopicVideoID":4935,"CourseChapterTopicPlaylistID":56124,"HasSubtitles":true,"ThumbnailPath":"https://www.proprep.com/Images/Videos_Thumbnails/4935.jpeg","UploadDate":"2020-09-30T07:37:35.3370000","DurationForVideoObject":"PT6M8S","Description":null,"VideoComments":[],"Subtitles":[{"Start":"00:00.000 ","End":"00:03.825","Text":"In this exercise, we have to solve the following equation."},{"Start":"00:03.825 ","End":"00:05.475","Text":"There\u0027s only 2 of them."},{"Start":"00:05.475 ","End":"00:09.570","Text":"Let\u0027s get started with the first which I copied over here."},{"Start":"00:09.570 ","End":"00:16.110","Text":"Already there is something fishy because this is in the chapter on linear equations,"},{"Start":"00:16.110 ","End":"00:20.610","Text":"meaning equations where there is no x^2 yet here I see x^2."},{"Start":"00:20.610 ","End":"00:25.499","Text":"Well, the mystery will be solved during the solution of the question."},{"Start":"00:25.499 ","End":"00:27.600","Text":"First thing we have to do is open the bracket."},{"Start":"00:27.600 ","End":"00:30.945","Text":"Remember we multiply this by this and this by this."},{"Start":"00:30.945 ","End":"00:35.715","Text":"We get x times x is x^2."},{"Start":"00:35.715 ","End":"00:45.550","Text":"x times minus 5 is minus 5x is equal to x^2 minus 7x plus 8."},{"Start":"00:45.550 ","End":"00:49.510","Text":"Now, remember what I said about there shouldn\u0027t be an x^2?"},{"Start":"00:49.510 ","End":"00:51.320","Text":"In fact, it cancels."},{"Start":"00:51.320 ","End":"00:53.270","Text":"When you have something on both sides,"},{"Start":"00:53.270 ","End":"00:55.250","Text":"you can just cancel it."},{"Start":"00:55.250 ","End":"01:00.065","Text":"Really what I did was I subtracted x^2 from both sides of the equation."},{"Start":"01:00.065 ","End":"01:03.110","Text":"Or if you like moving something to the other side,"},{"Start":"01:03.110 ","End":"01:06.080","Text":"I brought it to this side and it became minus x^2,"},{"Start":"01:06.080 ","End":"01:07.729","Text":"whichever way you look at it at cancels."},{"Start":"01:07.729 ","End":"01:12.580","Text":"Now we are in familiar territory with just x\u0027s and numbers."},{"Start":"01:12.580 ","End":"01:17.250","Text":"Let\u0027s separate the sheep from the goats,"},{"Start":"01:17.250 ","End":"01:18.595","Text":"as the expression goes."},{"Start":"01:18.595 ","End":"01:22.790","Text":"Let\u0027s put the terms containing x on the left and the numbers on the right."},{"Start":"01:22.790 ","End":"01:25.725","Text":"This is an x term, it stays."},{"Start":"01:25.725 ","End":"01:27.230","Text":"This is an x term,"},{"Start":"01:27.230 ","End":"01:29.240","Text":"but it goes over to the other side."},{"Start":"01:29.240 ","End":"01:30.650","Text":"It comes out as plus,"},{"Start":"01:30.650 ","End":"01:33.680","Text":"and the 8 was here, it stays here."},{"Start":"01:33.680 ","End":"01:38.770","Text":"Next, collect like terms minus 5x plus 7x."},{"Start":"01:38.770 ","End":"01:44.310","Text":"How many x altogether minus 5 plus 7 is plus 2."},{"Start":"01:44.310 ","End":"01:48.150","Text":"We have 2x is equal to 8,"},{"Start":"01:48.150 ","End":"01:51.020","Text":"and now we bring the 2 over to"},{"Start":"01:51.020 ","End":"01:54.665","Text":"the other side because it was multiplied here, it\u0027s divided here."},{"Start":"01:54.665 ","End":"01:58.640","Text":"I\u0027m just going to write here, divide by 2."},{"Start":"01:58.640 ","End":"02:02.285","Text":"Just like a should\u0027ve written here, subtract x^2."},{"Start":"02:02.285 ","End":"02:04.190","Text":"When you do some of the same thing to both sides,"},{"Start":"02:04.190 ","End":"02:06.455","Text":"you write down what it is that you did to both sides."},{"Start":"02:06.455 ","End":"02:09.320","Text":"Anyway, we get x equals 8 divided by 2,"},{"Start":"02:09.320 ","End":"02:11.975","Text":"which I immediately write as 4."},{"Start":"02:11.975 ","End":"02:14.090","Text":"That is the answer."},{"Start":"02:14.090 ","End":"02:17.540","Text":"Now, let\u0027s go to the second one."},{"Start":"02:17.540 ","End":"02:19.655","Text":"Let\u0027s see what we have here."},{"Start":"02:19.655 ","End":"02:23.450","Text":"Looks like we have brackets here and here we also have one of"},{"Start":"02:23.450 ","End":"02:27.500","Text":"those special binomial expansions products."},{"Start":"02:27.500 ","End":"02:29.690","Text":"Everything is on the left, only 0 is on the right."},{"Start":"02:29.690 ","End":"02:32.330","Text":"Well, let\u0027s just open the brackets."},{"Start":"02:32.330 ","End":"02:34.460","Text":"We call expansion."},{"Start":"02:34.460 ","End":"02:37.300","Text":"I\u0027ll use the red arc."},{"Start":"02:37.300 ","End":"02:39.450","Text":"This with this, this with this,"},{"Start":"02:39.450 ","End":"02:41.365","Text":"this with this, this with this."},{"Start":"02:41.365 ","End":"02:43.615","Text":"Some people even put little arrows at the end."},{"Start":"02:43.615 ","End":"02:47.885","Text":"I\u0027ll do it for ones. Let\u0027s get to it."},{"Start":"02:47.885 ","End":"02:51.090","Text":"7 times 1 is 7."},{"Start":"02:51.090 ","End":"02:54.900","Text":"7 times minus x is minus 7x."},{"Start":"02:54.900 ","End":"02:59.385","Text":"Minus x times 1 is minus x."},{"Start":"02:59.385 ","End":"03:01.635","Text":"Minus x times minus x,"},{"Start":"03:01.635 ","End":"03:04.075","Text":"negative times negative is positive,"},{"Start":"03:04.075 ","End":"03:05.800","Text":"so it\u0027s like x times x,"},{"Start":"03:05.800 ","End":"03:08.770","Text":"which is x^2, minus."},{"Start":"03:08.770 ","End":"03:10.855","Text":"Now we come across this."},{"Start":"03:10.855 ","End":"03:13.120","Text":"This is one of those special binomial."},{"Start":"03:13.120 ","End":"03:14.784","Text":"Let me just write the equation."},{"Start":"03:14.784 ","End":"03:16.885","Text":"I believe this is the equation,"},{"Start":"03:16.885 ","End":"03:21.755","Text":"the identity, a formula that we\u0027re looking for."},{"Start":"03:21.755 ","End":"03:24.170","Text":"But since there\u0027s a minus here,"},{"Start":"03:24.170 ","End":"03:27.950","Text":"I have to put this in brackets, so I\u0027ll expand."},{"Start":"03:27.950 ","End":"03:31.535","Text":"But I\u0027ll put the answer to the expansion in brackets."},{"Start":"03:31.535 ","End":"03:35.480","Text":"Let\u0027s see, we need a^2 minus 2ab plus b^2,"},{"Start":"03:35.480 ","End":"03:40.040","Text":"where x is my a and 3 is the b."},{"Start":"03:40.040 ","End":"03:43.660","Text":"It\u0027s x^2 minus 2ab,"},{"Start":"03:43.660 ","End":"03:48.720","Text":"minus 2 times x times 3 is minus 6x."},{"Start":"03:48.720 ","End":"03:50.865","Text":"Then plus 3^2."},{"Start":"03:50.865 ","End":"03:52.825","Text":"3^2 is 9."},{"Start":"03:52.825 ","End":"03:54.680","Text":"Now I have to open the minus."},{"Start":"03:54.680 ","End":"03:58.430","Text":"Remember the minus in front of a bracket just reverses all the signs."},{"Start":"03:58.430 ","End":"04:02.945","Text":"This bit is the same 7 minus 7x minus x plus x^2."},{"Start":"04:02.945 ","End":"04:08.460","Text":"Then minus x^2 plus 6x minus 9."},{"Start":"04:08.460 ","End":"04:10.335","Text":"I reverse all the signs."},{"Start":"04:10.335 ","End":"04:12.840","Text":"I forgot the is equal to 0,"},{"Start":"04:12.840 ","End":"04:14.120","Text":"otherwise, it\u0027s not an equation."},{"Start":"04:14.120 ","End":"04:15.368","Text":"We don\u0027t have an equality."},{"Start":"04:15.368 ","End":"04:18.334","Text":"That\u0027s fixed. Collecting like terms."},{"Start":"04:18.334 ","End":"04:22.430","Text":"We have really 3 terms apples,"},{"Start":"04:22.430 ","End":"04:25.380","Text":"oranges, bananas. I\u0027ll mark them."},{"Start":"04:25.380 ","End":"04:29.850","Text":"These are the apples and the oranges are the x\u0027s."},{"Start":"04:29.850 ","End":"04:32.550","Text":"That\u0027s these and the third fruit,"},{"Start":"04:32.550 ","End":"04:35.055","Text":"bananas or lemons, these."},{"Start":"04:35.055 ","End":"04:37.745","Text":"Let\u0027s collect them. Let\u0027s go with the green first."},{"Start":"04:37.745 ","End":"04:41.090","Text":"Plus x^2 minus x^2 that cancels out."},{"Start":"04:41.090 ","End":"04:42.680","Text":"That\u0027s just nothing."},{"Start":"04:42.680 ","End":"04:45.500","Text":"Just don\u0027t write anything at all."},{"Start":"04:45.500 ","End":"04:48.230","Text":"I\u0027ll even just indicate that I cancel them."},{"Start":"04:48.230 ","End":"04:52.295","Text":"I expected that to happen because this is in the chapter on linear equations,"},{"Start":"04:52.295 ","End":"04:54.720","Text":"x^2 isn\u0027t supposed to come into this."},{"Start":"04:54.720 ","End":"04:57.830","Text":"Next, do the x\u0027s, the orange ones."},{"Start":"04:57.830 ","End":"04:59.360","Text":"How many of them do we have?"},{"Start":"04:59.360 ","End":"05:02.285","Text":"Minus 7 minus 1 plus 6."},{"Start":"05:02.285 ","End":"05:06.380","Text":"Minus 7 minus 1 is minus 8,"},{"Start":"05:06.380 ","End":"05:08.435","Text":"plus 6 is minus 2."},{"Start":"05:08.435 ","End":"05:11.840","Text":"We have minus 2 oranges, x\u0027s,"},{"Start":"05:11.840 ","End":"05:15.320","Text":"I mean, and let\u0027s see how many bananas."},{"Start":"05:15.320 ","End":"05:19.760","Text":"We have 7 minus 9 is minus 2."},{"Start":"05:19.760 ","End":"05:23.770","Text":"Minus 2 is equal to 0."},{"Start":"05:23.770 ","End":"05:28.970","Text":"Now as usual, I like the x\u0027s on the left and the numbers on the right."},{"Start":"05:28.970 ","End":"05:31.190","Text":"Well, the x is already is on the left."},{"Start":"05:31.190 ","End":"05:33.875","Text":"This I throw over to the other side."},{"Start":"05:33.875 ","End":"05:36.635","Text":"But I\u0027ve changed it from a minus to a plus,"},{"Start":"05:36.635 ","End":"05:39.005","Text":"minus 2x equals 2."},{"Start":"05:39.005 ","End":"05:44.410","Text":"Finally, I need to divide it by minus 2."},{"Start":"05:44.410 ","End":"05:47.190","Text":"If I\u0027m going to just be left with x,"},{"Start":"05:47.190 ","End":"05:49.630","Text":"so, I divide it by minus 2."},{"Start":"05:49.630 ","End":"05:51.335","Text":"I\u0027ll continue over here."},{"Start":"05:51.335 ","End":"05:53.090","Text":"If I divide it by minus 2,"},{"Start":"05:53.090 ","End":"05:58.225","Text":"this is just x and this is 2 divided by minus 2,"},{"Start":"05:58.225 ","End":"06:05.130","Text":"plus over minus is minus and 2 over 2 is 1. x is equal to minus 1."},{"Start":"06:05.130 ","End":"06:09.040","Text":"I\u0027ll highlight it and we\u0027re done."}],"ID":4938}],"Thumbnail":null,"ID":56124},{"Name":"Linear Equations- Zero or Infinite Solutions","TopicPlaylistFirstVideoID":0,"Duration":null,"Videos":[{"Watched":false,"Name":"Linear in One Unknown - Degenerate","Duration":"5m ","ChapterTopicVideoID":4941,"CourseChapterTopicPlaylistID":56125,"HasSubtitles":true,"ThumbnailPath":"https://www.proprep.com/Images/Videos_Thumbnails/4941.jpeg","UploadDate":"2020-09-30T07:48:44.8800000","DurationForVideoObject":"PT5M","Description":null,"VideoComments":[],"Subtitles":[{"Start":"00:00.000 ","End":"00:04.605","Text":"I\u0027m now going to talk about something I call unusual linear equations."},{"Start":"00:04.605 ","End":"00:09.510","Text":"Still in 1 variable that would be x. I use the informal term unusual."},{"Start":"00:09.510 ","End":"00:13.260","Text":"A technical term might be degenerate or singular,"},{"Start":"00:13.260 ","End":"00:17.610","Text":"but I don\u0027t want to use fancy words, just say unusual."},{"Start":"00:17.610 ","End":"00:19.665","Text":"Now I\u0027ll tell you in what sense unusual."},{"Start":"00:19.665 ","End":"00:24.165","Text":"Up to now, we\u0027ve had the linear equation and we\u0027ve solved it and we found what x equals."},{"Start":"00:24.165 ","End":"00:25.815","Text":"We\u0027ve got 1 solution."},{"Start":"00:25.815 ","End":"00:28.050","Text":"I mentioned in the introduction that sometimes"},{"Start":"00:28.050 ","End":"00:31.050","Text":"equations have more than 1 solution when they\u0027re not linear."},{"Start":"00:31.050 ","End":"00:35.950","Text":"I gave an example of x^2 equals 9 can have 2 solutions."},{"Start":"00:35.950 ","End":"00:37.640","Text":"Now with linear equations,"},{"Start":"00:37.640 ","End":"00:39.730","Text":"they almost always just have 1 solution,"},{"Start":"00:39.730 ","End":"00:42.085","Text":"but there are 2 other possibilities."},{"Start":"00:42.085 ","End":"00:43.810","Text":"The possibilities, I\u0027ll just write the of"},{"Start":"00:43.810 ","End":"00:49.400","Text":"the regular 1 solution is what we regularly get 1."},{"Start":"00:49.400 ","End":"00:52.115","Text":"That\u0027s the normal situation."},{"Start":"00:52.115 ","End":"00:53.300","Text":"That\u0027s not the unusual."},{"Start":"00:53.300 ","End":"00:54.995","Text":"That\u0027s the usual."},{"Start":"00:54.995 ","End":"00:59.665","Text":"What I mean by unusual is it could be no solution."},{"Start":"00:59.665 ","End":"01:03.370","Text":"That\u0027s 1 possibility."},{"Start":"01:03.370 ","End":"01:11.450","Text":"The other unusual possibility is there are an infinite number of solutions."},{"Start":"01:11.450 ","End":"01:14.930","Text":"It\u0027s not just that there are infinite number of solutions."},{"Start":"01:14.930 ","End":"01:17.960","Text":"In this case, it\u0027s that every number is a solution."},{"Start":"01:17.960 ","End":"01:22.175","Text":"All x are solutions in here,"},{"Start":"01:22.175 ","End":"01:26.975","Text":"no x whereas we\u0027re used to exactly just 1x."},{"Start":"01:26.975 ","End":"01:31.430","Text":"Let me give an example of each and they don\u0027t happen that often,"},{"Start":"01:31.430 ","End":"01:33.920","Text":"but you have to be aware that it could be."},{"Start":"01:33.920 ","End":"01:37.745","Text":"Well, I just went ahead and wrote them up to save time."},{"Start":"01:37.745 ","End":"01:39.815","Text":"Which one should we go for first?"},{"Start":"01:39.815 ","End":"01:44.135","Text":"Think I\u0027ll go for this one first and see what happens here."},{"Start":"01:44.135 ","End":"01:47.524","Text":"Here we want to collect like terms."},{"Start":"01:47.524 ","End":"01:50.855","Text":"x is on the left and numbers on the right."},{"Start":"01:50.855 ","End":"01:52.340","Text":"How many x do we have?"},{"Start":"01:52.340 ","End":"01:54.035","Text":"We have 2x from here."},{"Start":"01:54.035 ","End":"01:56.845","Text":"We have 8x from here,"},{"Start":"01:56.845 ","End":"02:00.555","Text":"minus 3x, it\u0027s a lot."},{"Start":"02:00.555 ","End":"02:04.610","Text":"7x that comes over becomes minus 7x."},{"Start":"02:04.610 ","End":"02:06.950","Text":"That\u0027s x\u0027s. Now numbers,"},{"Start":"02:06.950 ","End":"02:08.975","Text":"not so many, but yeah,"},{"Start":"02:08.975 ","End":"02:12.645","Text":"this 4 comes across as minus 4,"},{"Start":"02:12.645 ","End":"02:17.680","Text":"and then I have plus 9 from here and minus 5."},{"Start":"02:17.680 ","End":"02:20.674","Text":"Let\u0027s put them together."},{"Start":"02:20.674 ","End":"02:22.505","Text":"How many x\u0027s do I have?"},{"Start":"02:22.505 ","End":"02:24.095","Text":"2 plus 8,"},{"Start":"02:24.095 ","End":"02:25.930","Text":"minus 3 minus 7."},{"Start":"02:25.930 ","End":"02:28.395","Text":"Well, the pluses of 2 and 8 is 10,"},{"Start":"02:28.395 ","End":"02:30.915","Text":"the minuses of 3 and 7 is 10."},{"Start":"02:30.915 ","End":"02:33.405","Text":"We end up with 0x."},{"Start":"02:33.405 ","End":"02:37.100","Text":"Here I get 9 minus 4 minus 5."},{"Start":"02:37.100 ","End":"02:39.455","Text":"If I change the order, I also get 0."},{"Start":"02:39.455 ","End":"02:42.990","Text":"In other words, 0 equals 0."},{"Start":"02:43.010 ","End":"02:46.595","Text":"That looks very strange, that\u0027s always true."},{"Start":"02:46.595 ","End":"02:48.215","Text":"It turns out that, yeah,"},{"Start":"02:48.215 ","End":"02:52.340","Text":"x is a solution to this equation if and only if 0 equals 0."},{"Start":"02:52.340 ","End":"02:53.881","Text":"Now, this is always true,"},{"Start":"02:53.881 ","End":"02:55.760","Text":"so this is always true."},{"Start":"02:55.760 ","End":"02:58.310","Text":"In fact, if you throw me any number,"},{"Start":"02:58.310 ","End":"03:00.225","Text":"suppose you threw, I don\u0027t know,"},{"Start":"03:00.225 ","End":"03:05.355","Text":"x equals 1, I would do 2 plus 2 plus 8."},{"Start":"03:05.355 ","End":"03:07.770","Text":"Anyway, you can check. Substitute x equals 1,"},{"Start":"03:07.770 ","End":"03:09.435","Text":"it will give you equality."},{"Start":"03:09.435 ","End":"03:12.180","Text":"Maybe x equals 0, it\u0027ll be easier to compute."},{"Start":"03:12.180 ","End":"03:16.965","Text":"If x is 0, I just go 4 equals 9 minus 5,"},{"Start":"03:16.965 ","End":"03:19.350","Text":"but every number you put in."},{"Start":"03:19.350 ","End":"03:24.985","Text":"All x is a solutions which also implies that there\u0027s an infinite number of solutions."},{"Start":"03:24.985 ","End":"03:31.460","Text":"Typically, when you get to something like 0 equals 0 or 5 equals 5 at the end,"},{"Start":"03:31.460 ","End":"03:35.750","Text":"that indicates to you that every x is a solution."},{"Start":"03:35.750 ","End":"03:39.705","Text":"We write down solution,"},{"Start":"03:39.705 ","End":"03:44.765","Text":"all x or every x, something like that."},{"Start":"03:44.765 ","End":"03:46.940","Text":"Every x is a solution."},{"Start":"03:46.940 ","End":"03:49.175","Text":"Now let\u0027s go to this one."},{"Start":"03:49.175 ","End":"03:51.620","Text":"Here we have to also expand brackets."},{"Start":"03:51.620 ","End":"03:52.940","Text":"Let\u0027s see 5 times x,"},{"Start":"03:52.940 ","End":"03:54.320","Text":"5 times minus 2."},{"Start":"03:54.320 ","End":"04:00.780","Text":"5x minus 10 equals 3x plus again it brackets 2 with this 2 with this,"},{"Start":"04:00.780 ","End":"04:05.340","Text":"so 2x minus 6. x is to the left."},{"Start":"04:05.340 ","End":"04:07.200","Text":"I\u0027ll start with the one that is on the left,"},{"Start":"04:07.200 ","End":"04:13.350","Text":"and then I bring over the 3x is minus, minus 2x."},{"Start":"04:13.350 ","End":"04:15.555","Text":"On this side, let\u0027s see,"},{"Start":"04:15.555 ","End":"04:23.295","Text":"10 and plus and minus 6."},{"Start":"04:23.295 ","End":"04:27.020","Text":"If I do this computation, how many x\u0027s?"},{"Start":"04:27.020 ","End":"04:28.430","Text":"5 minus 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right."},{"Start":"00:27.525 ","End":"00:37.900","Text":"X\u0027s we have here and here and here and number here and here."},{"Start":"00:38.120 ","End":"00:42.860","Text":"On the left we have 6x minus 2x."},{"Start":"00:42.860 ","End":"00:47.195","Text":"Remember everything that crosses side gets reversed."},{"Start":"00:47.195 ","End":"00:55.350","Text":"Minus 4x and on the right we get a plus 12 and a plus 5."},{"Start":"00:55.600 ","End":"00:58.205","Text":"What do we get now?"},{"Start":"00:58.205 ","End":"01:02.060","Text":"6 minus 2 minus 4, that\u0027s 0."},{"Start":"01:02.060 ","End":"01:06.815","Text":"I get 0x equals 17."},{"Start":"01:06.815 ","End":"01:08.615","Text":"0 times anything is 0."},{"Start":"01:08.615 ","End":"01:11.720","Text":"I get 0 equals 17."},{"Start":"01:11.720 ","End":"01:14.400","Text":"What\u0027s going on here?"},{"Start":"01:14.400 ","End":"01:18.070","Text":"The answer is that if while you\u0027re trying to solve it,"},{"Start":"01:18.070 ","End":"01:22.495","Text":"you get something impossible, a definite falsehood."},{"Start":"01:22.495 ","End":"01:26.035","Text":"It means that there is no solution to this equation."},{"Start":"01:26.035 ","End":"01:30.910","Text":"You simply write no solution."},{"Start":"01:32.720 ","End":"01:35.080","Text":"That\u0027s all there is to it."},{"Start":"01:35.080 ","End":"01:39.220","Text":"Any value of x you substitute in here will not work."},{"Start":"01:39.220 ","End":"01:45.160","Text":"Because any value of x that satisfies this equation implies that 0 equals 17,"},{"Start":"01:45.160 ","End":"01:47.020","Text":"and this could never going to happen."},{"Start":"01:47.020 ","End":"01:49.690","Text":"No solution, and that\u0027s it."},{"Start":"01:49.690 ","End":"01:57.320","Text":"Or no x satisfies the equation or something like that you can write. That\u0027s It."}],"ID":4940},{"Watched":false,"Name":"Exercise 2","Duration":"2m 36s","ChapterTopicVideoID":4940,"CourseChapterTopicPlaylistID":56125,"HasSubtitles":true,"ThumbnailPath":"https://www.proprep.com/Images/Videos_Thumbnails/4940.jpeg","UploadDate":"2016-02-11T15:35:55.4900000","DurationForVideoObject":"PT2M36S","Description":null,"VideoComments":[],"Subtitles":[{"Start":"00:00.000 ","End":"00:05.250","Text":"Here we have to solve this equation and one variable,"},{"Start":"00:05.250 ","End":"00:07.950","Text":"x, looks innocent enough,"},{"Start":"00:07.950 ","End":"00:09.435","Text":"let\u0027s try and solve it."},{"Start":"00:09.435 ","End":"00:12.408","Text":"The usual technique is to bring the x\u0027s to the left,"},{"Start":"00:12.408 ","End":"00:14.340","Text":"numbers to the right just to make it easier,"},{"Start":"00:14.340 ","End":"00:16.050","Text":"I\u0027ll mark where the x\u0027s are."},{"Start":"00:16.050 ","End":"00:17.805","Text":"X marks the spot."},{"Start":"00:17.805 ","End":"00:20.969","Text":"These are the x\u0027s and I\u0027ll bring them to the left."},{"Start":"00:20.969 ","End":"00:28.530","Text":"I\u0027ve got 5x plus x minus 4x because it\u0027s switched sides and minus 2x."},{"Start":"00:28.530 ","End":"00:32.160","Text":"Now the numbers, number I have here and here."},{"Start":"00:32.160 ","End":"00:35.975","Text":"Minus 3 was on the right already,"},{"Start":"00:35.975 ","End":"00:37.580","Text":"but this one crossed sides,"},{"Start":"00:37.580 ","End":"00:39.800","Text":"so it becomes plus 3."},{"Start":"00:39.800 ","End":"00:41.884","Text":"Let\u0027s see, let\u0027s do the arithmetic."},{"Start":"00:41.884 ","End":"00:48.440","Text":"5 and 1 minus 4 minus 2 is 6 minus 6 is 0,"},{"Start":"00:48.440 ","End":"00:51.160","Text":"0x that\u0027s just 0."},{"Start":"00:51.160 ","End":"00:57.140","Text":"Minus 3 plus 3 is also 0 and 0 equals 0 is always true."},{"Start":"00:57.140 ","End":"01:00.335","Text":"It\u0027s called tautology, self-evident."},{"Start":"01:00.335 ","End":"01:05.135","Text":"Now, what does this mean in terms of the solution to this equation?"},{"Start":"01:05.135 ","End":"01:09.230","Text":"Well, if you get something that\u0027s a tautology,"},{"Start":"01:09.230 ","End":"01:12.890","Text":"that\u0027s always true like 5 equals 5 or something like that,"},{"Start":"01:12.890 ","End":"01:18.305","Text":"or 0 equals 0, it means that there\u0027s an infinite number of solutions."},{"Start":"01:18.305 ","End":"01:21.605","Text":"More than that, it means that every x is a solution."},{"Start":"01:21.605 ","End":"01:25.460","Text":"This is satisfied by all x."},{"Start":"01:25.460 ","End":"01:27.275","Text":"That\u0027s the solution."},{"Start":"01:27.275 ","End":"01:29.060","Text":"Satisfy this equation."},{"Start":"01:29.060 ","End":"01:31.550","Text":"Let\u0027s just illustrate it by, I don\u0027t know,"},{"Start":"01:31.550 ","End":"01:37.425","Text":"give me a value of x, say 3."},{"Start":"01:37.425 ","End":"01:43.710","Text":"We got 15 minus 3 is 12,"},{"Start":"01:43.710 ","End":"01:52.040","Text":"plus 3 is 15 and here we get 4 times 3 is 12 plus 6 minus 3 is also 15."},{"Start":"01:52.040 ","End":"01:54.005","Text":"Try x equals 0,"},{"Start":"01:54.005 ","End":"01:57.215","Text":"we just get minus 3 equals minus 3, it works."},{"Start":"01:57.215 ","End":"01:58.970","Text":"Every x you plug in,"},{"Start":"01:58.970 ","End":"02:01.985","Text":"you\u0027ll get an equality to one where x equals 1."},{"Start":"02:01.985 ","End":"02:08.995","Text":"5 minus 3 plus 1 is 6,"},{"Start":"02:08.995 ","End":"02:15.710","Text":"and 4 plus 2 minus 3 is 3."},{"Start":"02:15.710 ","End":"02:17.210","Text":"Wait, what did I do wrong here?"},{"Start":"02:17.210 ","End":"02:19.955","Text":"When x is 1, it\u0027s 5 plus 1 minus 3, yeah,"},{"Start":"02:19.955 ","End":"02:22.805","Text":"it\u0027s 3 and 4 plus 2 minus 3 is also 3."},{"Start":"02:22.805 ","End":"02:26.820","Text":"All x satisfy the equation."},{"Start":"02:27.250 ","End":"02:34.920","Text":"You can just write all x. That\u0027s it."}],"ID":4941}],"Thumbnail":null,"ID":56125},{"Name":"Variable in the Denominator","TopicPlaylistFirstVideoID":0,"Duration":null,"Videos":[{"Watched":false,"Name":"Exercise 1","Duration":"1m 31s","ChapterTopicVideoID":4942,"CourseChapterTopicPlaylistID":56126,"HasSubtitles":true,"ThumbnailPath":"https://www.proprep.com/Images/Videos_Thumbnails/4942.jpeg","UploadDate":"2016-02-11T15:38:08.2530000","DurationForVideoObject":"PT1M31S","Description":null,"VideoComments":[],"Subtitles":[{"Start":"00:00.000 ","End":"00:03.900","Text":"This is one of these equations with denominators."},{"Start":"00:03.900 ","End":"00:06.000","Text":"The first thing we want to do is get rid of"},{"Start":"00:06.000 ","End":"00:09.330","Text":"the denominators and then we can see what we have,"},{"Start":"00:09.330 ","End":"00:11.965","Text":"a linear or quadratic or whatever."},{"Start":"00:11.965 ","End":"00:14.950","Text":"Let\u0027s see, 3 and 9."},{"Start":"00:14.950 ","End":"00:17.310","Text":"What\u0027s a good common denominator?"},{"Start":"00:17.310 ","End":"00:20.639","Text":"Of course, you can multiply 3 by 9 and get 27,"},{"Start":"00:20.639 ","End":"00:22.739","Text":"but we prefer something smaller."},{"Start":"00:22.739 ","End":"00:25.990","Text":"You can see that 9 will work for both."},{"Start":"00:27.320 ","End":"00:33.690","Text":"I\u0027m going to multiply both sides of the equation by 9."},{"Start":"00:34.480 ","End":"00:39.055","Text":"That means that every term gets multiplied by 9,"},{"Start":"00:39.055 ","End":"00:42.620","Text":"and 9 will cancel with the denominator in each case."},{"Start":"00:42.620 ","End":"00:46.335","Text":"Here, we\u0027ll be left with 3, 9/3."},{"Start":"00:46.335 ","End":"00:48.960","Text":"Here, 9/9 is 1."},{"Start":"00:48.960 ","End":"00:51.210","Text":"Here, the denominator is 1,"},{"Start":"00:51.210 ","End":"00:53.840","Text":"we\u0027ll get the full 9 here."},{"Start":"00:53.840 ","End":"00:55.970","Text":"After we multiply out,"},{"Start":"00:55.970 ","End":"01:01.710","Text":"we get 3 times x is 3x minus 1 times x is"},{"Start":"01:01.710 ","End":"01:09.375","Text":"x equals 9 times minus 4 plus times minus is minus 36."},{"Start":"01:09.375 ","End":"01:11.805","Text":"Collecting the like terms,"},{"Start":"01:11.805 ","End":"01:17.160","Text":"3x-x is 2x is minus 36."},{"Start":"01:17.160 ","End":"01:20.415","Text":"Then we divide both sides by 2."},{"Start":"01:20.415 ","End":"01:22.775","Text":"Take the 2 to the denominator."},{"Start":"01:22.775 ","End":"01:27.990","Text":"Either way, x=-18."},{"Start":"01:28.000 ","End":"01:31.140","Text":"That\u0027s the answer."}],"ID":4942},{"Watched":false,"Name":"Exercise 2","Duration":"1m 13s","ChapterTopicVideoID":4943,"CourseChapterTopicPlaylistID":56126,"HasSubtitles":true,"ThumbnailPath":"https://www.proprep.com/Images/Videos_Thumbnails/4943.jpeg","UploadDate":"2016-02-11T15:38:20.3030000","DurationForVideoObject":"PT1M13S","Description":null,"VideoComments":[],"Subtitles":[{"Start":"00:00.000 ","End":"00:03.000","Text":"Here\u0027s another one of those equations where we"},{"Start":"00:03.000 ","End":"00:06.055","Text":"have a denominator that we should get rid of."},{"Start":"00:06.055 ","End":"00:07.865","Text":"Let\u0027s do it over here."},{"Start":"00:07.865 ","End":"00:10.675","Text":"Let\u0027s see. 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them."},{"Start":"00:24.030 ","End":"00:29.520","Text":"Let\u0027s multiply both sides of this equation by 15."},{"Start":"00:29.520 ","End":"00:38.415","Text":"With the usual way we do things,15/5 is 3 so I multiply this by 3,"},{"Start":"00:38.415 ","End":"00:42.120","Text":"15/15 is 1 so this gets multiplied by 1,"},{"Start":"00:42.120 ","End":"00:50.555","Text":"and this is like over 1 so I have to multiply it by the full 15."},{"Start":"00:50.555 ","End":"00:58.530","Text":"What we get is 3 times 2 is 6 but we still have the x minus 3, minus,"},{"Start":"00:58.530 ","End":"01:01.340","Text":"1 times 3 is 3,"},{"Start":"01:01.340 ","End":"01:04.035","Text":"and we still have the 4 minus x,"},{"Start":"01:04.035 ","End":"01:10.990","Text":"and here 15 times all of x plus 2 so it needs the brackets."},{"Start":"01:11.240 ","End":"01:13.935","Text":"Let\u0027s expand the brackets,"},{"Start":"01:13.935 ","End":"01:18.305","Text":"6 times x is 6x minus 6 times 3,"},{"Start":"01:18.305 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to divide both sides by minus 6,"},{"Start":"02:12.425 ","End":"02:17.640","Text":"so that\u0027ll leave me here with just x and 60 over minus 6,"},{"Start":"02:17.640 ","End":"02:21.880","Text":"plus over minus is minus 60/6 is 10."},{"Start":"02:21.980 ","End":"02:24.060","Text":"This is the answer,"},{"Start":"02:24.060 ","End":"02:26.920","Text":"x=-10 and we\u0027re done."}],"ID":4946},{"Watched":false,"Name":"Exercise 6","Duration":"2m 36s","ChapterTopicVideoID":4947,"CourseChapterTopicPlaylistID":56126,"HasSubtitles":true,"ThumbnailPath":"https://www.proprep.com/Images/Videos_Thumbnails/4947.jpeg","UploadDate":"2016-02-11T15:40:04.0000000","DurationForVideoObject":"PT2M36S","Description":null,"VideoComments":[],"Subtitles":[{"Start":"00:00.000 ","End":"00:03.860","Text":"Here we have an equation with fractions."},{"Start":"00:03.860 ","End":"00:05.249","Text":"I want to get rid of the fractions."},{"Start":"00:05.249 ","End":"00:08.040","Text":"It\u0027s a little bit different 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I\u0027ll multiply both sides by 4x,"},{"Start":"00:23.670 ","End":"00:26.010","Text":"which means multiplying every term."},{"Start":"00:26.010 ","End":"00:32.620","Text":"Why we usually do this because we say 4 into 4x goes x times,"},{"Start":"00:32.780 ","End":"00:38.725","Text":"x into 4x goes 4 times."},{"Start":"00:38.725 ","End":"00:43.710","Text":"The right-hand side gets multiplied by 4x."},{"Start":"00:44.660 ","End":"00:52.530","Text":"What it comes down to is x times 1 is x minus 4 times 2 is 8,"},{"Start":"00:52.530 ","End":"00:58.205","Text":"and 4x times 0 is 0 because anything times 0 is 0."},{"Start":"00:58.205 ","End":"01:00.050","Text":"X minus 8 is 0."},{"Start":"01:00.050 ","End":"01:02.525","Text":"Let\u0027s bring the 8 over to the other side."},{"Start":"01:02.525 ","End":"01:05.730","Text":"We\u0027ve got x equals 8."},{"Start":"01:05.730 ","End":"01:08.890","Text":"That\u0027s all there is to it."}],"ID":4948},{"Watched":false,"Name":"Exercise 8","Duration":"1m 30s","ChapterTopicVideoID":4949,"CourseChapterTopicPlaylistID":56126,"HasSubtitles":true,"ThumbnailPath":"https://www.proprep.com/Images/Videos_Thumbnails/4949.jpeg","UploadDate":"2016-02-11T15:40:29.2800000","DurationForVideoObject":"PT1M30S","Description":null,"VideoComments":[],"Subtitles":[{"Start":"00:00.000 ","End":"00:02.760","Text":"We have to solve the following equation."},{"Start":"00:02.760 ","End":"00:05.370","Text":"First thing I see is denominators."},{"Start":"00:05.370 ","End":"00:07.950","Text":"Don\u0027t like denominators. I want to get rid of them."},{"Start":"00:07.950 ","End":"00:10.275","Text":"Let\u0027s do it over here."},{"Start":"00:10.275 ","End":"00:12.585","Text":"I\u0027ll look for something in common."},{"Start":"00:12.585 ","End":"00:18.670","Text":"Both of these will go into and the obvious choice is just 2(x-1)."},{"Start":"00:19.910 ","End":"00:24.675","Text":"I ask 2 into this goes how many times?"},{"Start":"00:24.675 ","End":"00:28.360","Text":"X minus 1 times. Better put it in brackets."},{"Start":"00:28.520 ","End":"00:37.830","Text":"X minus 1 into 2(x-1) goes in twice and multiply the left minus hand side."},{"Start":"00:37.830 ","End":"00:42.200","Text":"I also have to multiply the right minus hand side by 2(x-1)."},{"Start":"00:43.550 ","End":"00:50.385","Text":"Multiplying it out, I get x minus 1 times 1 is x minus 1."},{"Start":"00:50.385 ","End":"00:53.830","Text":"I don\u0027t think I\u0027ll need the brackets now."},{"Start":"00:54.170 ","End":"00:57.570","Text":"Minus 2 times x is 2x,"},{"Start":"00:57.570 ","End":"01:00.170","Text":"and equals, doesn\u0027t matter what this is,"},{"Start":"01:00.170 ","End":"01:03.449","Text":"because times 0 it\u0027s just 0."},{"Start":"01:03.460 ","End":"01:07.273","Text":"Now, collect like terms,"},{"Start":"01:07.273 ","End":"01:11.995","Text":"x minus 2x is minus x,"},{"Start":"01:11.995 ","End":"01:16.720","Text":"and the minus 1 goes to the other side and becomes 1."},{"Start":"01:16.720 ","End":"01:19.830","Text":"So minus x is 1,"},{"Start":"01:19.830 ","End":"01:24.355","Text":"so x is minus 1."},{"Start":"01:24.355 ","End":"01:27.815","Text":"That was just from dividing both sides by minus 1,"},{"Start":"01:27.815 ","End":"01:31.020","Text":"and this is our answer, and we\u0027re done."}],"ID":4949},{"Watched":false,"Name":"Exercise 9","Duration":"1m 16s","ChapterTopicVideoID":4950,"CourseChapterTopicPlaylistID":56126,"HasSubtitles":true,"ThumbnailPath":"https://www.proprep.com/Images/Videos_Thumbnails/4950.jpeg","UploadDate":"2016-02-11T15:40:41.3370000","DurationForVideoObject":"PT1M16S","Description":null,"VideoComments":[],"Subtitles":[{"Start":"00:00.000 ","End":"00:03.389","Text":"We have here an equation to solve."},{"Start":"00:03.389 ","End":"00:04.680","Text":"This is the equation."},{"Start":"00:04.680 ","End":"00:06.150","Text":"Let\u0027s solve it down here."},{"Start":"00:06.150 ","End":"00:10.455","Text":"Now, I look at this and I see it\u0027s just a fraction equals a fraction,"},{"Start":"00:10.455 ","End":"00:11.880","Text":"and when this happens,"},{"Start":"00:11.880 ","End":"00:13.590","Text":"there\u0027s little shortcut you can use."},{"Start":"00:13.590 ","End":"00:17.640","Text":"You can say that the product of this diagonal equals the product of this diagonal."},{"Start":"00:17.640 ","End":"00:22.100","Text":"I\u0027ll write that down even formula."},{"Start":"00:22.100 ","End":"00:28.290","Text":"If a/b=c/d, then what I get is that"},{"Start":"00:28.290 ","End":"00:38.115","Text":"this tag and little ad=bc and that always works."},{"Start":"00:38.115 ","End":"00:40.885","Text":"In our case, what we get is,"},{"Start":"00:40.885 ","End":"00:50.880","Text":"this diagonal is 3(x+2x)=x,"},{"Start":"00:50.880 ","End":"00:55.900","Text":"if I expand here, I get 3x+6=x."},{"Start":"00:56.300 ","End":"01:01.575","Text":"Bring the x over and I\u0027ve got 2x."},{"Start":"01:01.575 ","End":"01:04.760","Text":"But I also want to bring the 6 over to the other side,"},{"Start":"01:04.760 ","End":"01:06.530","Text":"so that\u0027s minus 6,"},{"Start":"01:06.530 ","End":"01:08.585","Text":"and if I divide by 2,"},{"Start":"01:08.585 ","End":"01:13.205","Text":"I get x equals minus 6/2 is -3,"},{"Start":"01:13.205 ","End":"01:16.440","Text":"and this is our answer."}],"ID":4950},{"Watched":false,"Name":"Exercise 10","Duration":"1m 39s","ChapterTopicVideoID":4951,"CourseChapterTopicPlaylistID":56126,"HasSubtitles":true,"ThumbnailPath":"https://www.proprep.com/Images/Videos_Thumbnails/4951.jpeg","UploadDate":"2016-02-11T15:40:57.4670000","DurationForVideoObject":"PT1M39S","Description":null,"VideoComments":[],"Subtitles":[{"Start":"00:00.000 ","End":"00:04.830","Text":"Here we have an equation to solve, I\u0027ll do it over here."},{"Start":"00:04.830 ","End":"00:09.300","Text":"I want to remind you that when you have something like this,"},{"Start":"00:09.300 ","End":"00:11.055","Text":"a fraction equals a fraction,"},{"Start":"00:11.055 ","End":"00:14.085","Text":"we can do what is called cross multiplication."},{"Start":"00:14.085 ","End":"00:18.930","Text":"In general, if a over b is equal to c over d,"},{"Start":"00:18.930 ","End":"00:26.255","Text":"then a times d is equal to b times c. 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We have x^2 minus 1. I\u0027ll write all 3 of them."},{"Start":"00:31.560 ","End":"00:33.660","Text":"We have x plus 1,"},{"Start":"00:33.660 ","End":"00:37.905","Text":"and we have 2 minus 2x."},{"Start":"00:37.905 ","End":"00:42.175","Text":"Now this, using the difference of squares formula,"},{"Start":"00:42.175 ","End":"00:45.360","Text":"since it\u0027s x^2 minus 1^2,"},{"Start":"00:45.360 ","End":"00:48.155","Text":"we can write the 2 here, won\u0027t change anything."},{"Start":"00:48.155 ","End":"00:53.595","Text":"This is x minus 1 times x plus 1."},{"Start":"00:53.595 ","End":"00:56.420","Text":"X plus 1, I can\u0027t do anything with it."},{"Start":"00:56.420 ","End":"00:58.340","Text":"It\u0027s just x plus 1."},{"Start":"00:58.340 ","End":"01:01.580","Text":"We\u0027ll write it here as x plus 1, in brackets."},{"Start":"01:01.580 ","End":"01:04.220","Text":"Then it looks like this one."},{"Start":"01:04.220 ","End":"01:06.830","Text":"2 minus 2x, I can take 2 out,"},{"Start":"01:06.830 ","End":"01:12.955","Text":"and I\u0027ll write it as twice 1 minus x."},{"Start":"01:12.955 ","End":"01:16.595","Text":"Now here\u0027s the thing I wanted to show you."},{"Start":"01:16.595 ","End":"01:22.760","Text":"Notice that amongst all these factors on the right I have a 1 minus x,"},{"Start":"01:22.760 ","End":"01:25.415","Text":"and I have an x minus 1."},{"Start":"01:25.415 ","End":"01:29.660","Text":"Now I think that these are very close. Here\u0027s what I mean."},{"Start":"01:29.660 ","End":"01:31.685","Text":"In general in algebra,"},{"Start":"01:31.685 ","End":"01:39.290","Text":"if I have a minus b and b minus a,"},{"Start":"01:39.290 ","End":"01:42.245","Text":"I claim that each one is the negative of the other."},{"Start":"01:42.245 ","End":"01:48.410","Text":"For example, if I do minus of a minus b,"},{"Start":"01:48.410 ","End":"01:54.478","Text":"then this is equal to minus a plus b,"},{"Start":"01:54.478 ","End":"02:01.775","Text":"and minus a plus b with a slight rearrangement of order is the same as b minus a."},{"Start":"02:01.775 ","End":"02:06.935","Text":"What this means is if I put a minus in front of the subtraction,"},{"Start":"02:06.935 ","End":"02:12.305","Text":"it just changes the order."},{"Start":"02:12.305 ","End":"02:15.030","Text":"Just as for example,"},{"Start":"02:15.710 ","End":"02:20.400","Text":"5 minus 3 will equal 3 minus 5."},{"Start":"02:20.400 ","End":"02:22.315","Text":"You can check that out."},{"Start":"02:22.315 ","End":"02:31.610","Text":"What I\u0027d like to do here now is rewrite this as minus 2,"},{"Start":"02:31.610 ","End":"02:35.275","Text":"but then x minus 1."},{"Start":"02:35.275 ","End":"02:41.800","Text":"Once again, if I change the order of a subtraction and throw in a minus,"},{"Start":"02:41.800 ","End":"02:43.930","Text":"it will all work out okay."},{"Start":"02:43.930 ","End":"02:50.110","Text":"The reason I do this is because I\u0027d like to see if I can get some common factors here,"},{"Start":"02:50.110 ","End":"02:52.465","Text":"just like I have x plus 1 here and here,"},{"Start":"02:52.465 ","End":"02:55.645","Text":"I want an x minus 1 here and here."},{"Start":"02:55.645 ","End":"03:00.100","Text":"Now the situation is a lot clearer,"},{"Start":"03:00.100 ","End":"03:05.575","Text":"because all I have to do is collect the factors I need."},{"Start":"03:05.575 ","End":"03:07.675","Text":"Let me color, it\u0027ll be easier."},{"Start":"03:07.675 ","End":"03:11.540","Text":"X plus 1, I have here and here."},{"Start":"03:12.650 ","End":"03:15.820","Text":"I\u0027m going to erase the green,"},{"Start":"03:15.820 ","End":"03:17.310","Text":"it might be confusing."},{"Start":"03:17.310 ","End":"03:20.180","Text":"But I do want to leave the general formula that when I have"},{"Start":"03:20.180 ","End":"03:24.760","Text":"a difference I can put a minus and change the order."},{"Start":"03:24.760 ","End":"03:28.480","Text":"That\u0027s useful. I\u0027ll even put it in a little box."},{"Start":"03:28.480 ","End":"03:32.400","Text":"Reverse the order and throw in a minus."},{"Start":"03:32.400 ","End":"03:36.645","Text":"Back here I have x plus 1 here and here."},{"Start":"03:36.645 ","End":"03:43.995","Text":"I also have x minus 1 here and here."},{"Start":"03:43.995 ","End":"03:49.070","Text":"I also have a minus 2, so there."},{"Start":"03:49.070 ","End":"03:53.210","Text":"Now what I need for a common denominator is something that will"},{"Start":"03:53.210 ","End":"03:58.310","Text":"include everything that\u0027s in all of these 3, but no extra."},{"Start":"03:58.310 ","End":"03:59.975","Text":"Just write this down."},{"Start":"03:59.975 ","End":"04:04.379","Text":"My common denominator, denormal,"},{"Start":"04:04.379 ","End":"04:10.740","Text":"will be, I need x plus 1."},{"Start":"04:12.050 ","End":"04:16.905","Text":"That will cover this and this, and that\u0027s it."},{"Start":"04:16.905 ","End":"04:19.465","Text":"I\u0027ll need an x minus 1."},{"Start":"04:19.465 ","End":"04:22.924","Text":"Now I\u0027ve completely covered this and this. I\u0027ve got everything."},{"Start":"04:22.924 ","End":"04:24.560","Text":"I\u0027ve also got this covered."},{"Start":"04:24.560 ","End":"04:27.995","Text":"I don\u0027t have this covered because I still need a minus 2."},{"Start":"04:27.995 ","End":"04:29.675","Text":"I\u0027ve got the x minus 1 covered."},{"Start":"04:29.675 ","End":"04:31.850","Text":"If I put a minus 2 here,"},{"Start":"04:31.850 ","End":"04:34.910","Text":"this should be my common denominator."},{"Start":"04:34.910 ","End":"04:37.530","Text":"I\u0027ll just color it, there,"},{"Start":"04:37.530 ","End":"04:41.195","Text":"there, and there."},{"Start":"04:41.195 ","End":"04:43.825","Text":"I\u0027ve got these covered."},{"Start":"04:43.825 ","End":"04:47.390","Text":"Now I\u0027m going to put in the missing stuff."},{"Start":"04:47.390 ","End":"04:50.090","Text":"Let me just write lines here so you\u0027ll see where I\u0027m going."},{"Start":"04:50.090 ","End":"04:53.255","Text":"I want to take each one of them separately and look."},{"Start":"04:53.255 ","End":"04:56.270","Text":"Now x^2 minus 1 is here."},{"Start":"04:56.270 ","End":"04:59.940","Text":"I\u0027ve got x minus 1 times x plus 1."},{"Start":"04:59.940 ","End":"05:04.065","Text":"All I\u0027m missing to get this is the minus 2."},{"Start":"05:04.065 ","End":"05:06.080","Text":"See, this is here, this is here."},{"Start":"05:06.080 ","End":"05:07.520","Text":"I\u0027m missing a minus 2,"},{"Start":"05:07.520 ","End":"05:09.095","Text":"so that goes here."},{"Start":"05:09.095 ","End":"05:13.460","Text":"Next one. The denominator is x plus 1, that\u0027s here."},{"Start":"05:13.460 ","End":"05:15.215","Text":"I\u0027ve got the yellow covered,"},{"Start":"05:15.215 ","End":"05:17.180","Text":"I need this and this still."},{"Start":"05:17.180 ","End":"05:23.980","Text":"I put here minus 2 times x minus 1."},{"Start":"05:23.980 ","End":"05:27.350","Text":"Then the last one, 2 minus 2x, that\u0027s here."},{"Start":"05:27.350 ","End":"05:28.910","Text":"That\u0027s this one."},{"Start":"05:28.910 ","End":"05:30.350","Text":"I\u0027ve got one of these."},{"Start":"05:30.350 ","End":"05:31.640","Text":"I\u0027ve got one of these."},{"Start":"05:31.640 ","End":"05:33.590","Text":"What I\u0027m missing is this one,"},{"Start":"05:33.590 ","End":"05:35.945","Text":"is the x plus 1."},{"Start":"05:35.945 ","End":"05:38.960","Text":"That\u0027s basically the difficult part."},{"Start":"05:38.960 ","End":"05:40.730","Text":"The rest of it is now standard,"},{"Start":"05:40.730 ","End":"05:42.905","Text":"so let\u0027s just get to it."},{"Start":"05:42.905 ","End":"05:45.485","Text":"Let me just move this out the way."},{"Start":"05:45.485 ","End":"05:48.270","Text":"Let\u0027s put this over here."},{"Start":"05:49.670 ","End":"05:55.935","Text":"Minus 2 times 7 for this."},{"Start":"05:55.935 ","End":"06:01.720","Text":"Then minus 2 times x minus 1 times 2,"},{"Start":"06:03.530 ","End":"06:06.420","Text":"and plus x plus"},{"Start":"06:06.420 ","End":"06:12.765","Text":"1 times"},{"Start":"06:12.765 ","End":"06:17.350","Text":"3 equals something times 0."},{"Start":"06:17.350 ","End":"06:21.670","Text":"This is the common denominator."},{"Start":"06:21.670 ","End":"06:23.859","Text":"I\u0027ll just write it as common denominator."},{"Start":"06:23.859 ","End":"06:26.545","Text":"But it doesn\u0027t matter what it is is what I\u0027m saying."},{"Start":"06:26.545 ","End":"06:28.915","Text":"It should have been from here,"},{"Start":"06:28.915 ","End":"06:31.735","Text":"but because I\u0027m multiplying by 0,"},{"Start":"06:31.735 ","End":"06:35.280","Text":"this times 0, it\u0027s just 0."},{"Start":"06:35.280 ","End":"06:37.575","Text":"It doesn\u0027t matter what this is."},{"Start":"06:37.575 ","End":"06:42.645","Text":"Let\u0027s expand, minus 14."},{"Start":"06:42.645 ","End":"06:47.340","Text":"This is, minus 2 with the 2 is minus 4,"},{"Start":"06:47.340 ","End":"06:49.080","Text":"so it\u0027s minus 4x,"},{"Start":"06:49.080 ","End":"06:52.230","Text":"and then plus 4,"},{"Start":"06:52.230 ","End":"06:54.630","Text":"minus minus is plus."},{"Start":"06:54.630 ","End":"07:03.210","Text":"Then plus 3x plus 3 equals 0."},{"Start":"07:03.210 ","End":"07:11.550","Text":"X\u0027s on the left and numbers on the right."},{"Start":"07:11.550 ","End":"07:12.910","Text":"What have I got on the left?"},{"Start":"07:12.910 ","End":"07:19.015","Text":"I\u0027ve got minus 4x plus 3x,"},{"Start":"07:19.015 ","End":"07:21.460","Text":"and on the right, that\u0027s everything."},{"Start":"07:21.460 ","End":"07:30.120","Text":"It\u0027s 14 minus 4 minus 3."},{"Start":"07:30.120 ","End":"07:32.445","Text":"Let\u0027s collect and see."},{"Start":"07:32.445 ","End":"07:36.015","Text":"Minus 4x plus 3x is minus x,"},{"Start":"07:36.015 ","End":"07:40.800","Text":"14 minus 4 minus 3 is 7."},{"Start":"07:40.800 ","End":"07:47.400","Text":"If I divide by minus 1, I\u0027ve got x=-7."},{"Start":"07:47.400 ","End":"07:52.450","Text":"This is our answer. We are done."}],"ID":4953},{"Watched":false,"Name":"Exercise 13","Duration":"6m 41s","ChapterTopicVideoID":4954,"CourseChapterTopicPlaylistID":56126,"HasSubtitles":true,"ThumbnailPath":"https://www.proprep.com/Images/Videos_Thumbnails/4954.jpeg","UploadDate":"2016-02-11T15:43:46.9430000","DurationForVideoObject":"PT6M41S","Description":null,"VideoComments":[],"Subtitles":[{"Start":"00:00.000 ","End":"00:03.600","Text":"In this exercise, we have to solve this equation."},{"Start":"00:03.600 ","End":"00:08.235","Text":"The main feature of this equation is the denominators that we want to get rid of."},{"Start":"00:08.235 ","End":"00:10.900","Text":"They\u0027re a little bit complicated."},{"Start":"00:11.480 ","End":"00:14.850","Text":"I\u0027ll work down here. Let\u0027s first of all find what is"},{"Start":"00:14.850 ","End":"00:17.760","Text":"a good common denominator, hopefully the least."},{"Start":"00:17.760 ","End":"00:19.950","Text":"The whole business with the denominators,"},{"Start":"00:19.950 ","End":"00:21.615","Text":"I\u0027m going to do it the side."},{"Start":"00:21.615 ","End":"00:25.410","Text":"First of all, let me write the denominators involved."},{"Start":"00:25.410 ","End":"00:29.100","Text":"One of them is 2 minus x^2."},{"Start":"00:29.100 ","End":"00:31.275","Text":"I\u0027ll see what this is in a moment."},{"Start":"00:31.275 ","End":"00:35.034","Text":"The other one is 12 minus 3x,"},{"Start":"00:35.034 ","End":"00:37.185","Text":"^2, and we\u0027ll see what this is."},{"Start":"00:37.185 ","End":"00:39.660","Text":"We did a similar thing in the previous exercise."},{"Start":"00:39.660 ","End":"00:43.970","Text":"What I\u0027d like to do is factorize the denominator and then I\u0027ll"},{"Start":"00:43.970 ","End":"00:48.875","Text":"take all handpick old and all the bits that I need to find the common denominator."},{"Start":"00:48.875 ","End":"00:50.705","Text":"Now if I factorize this,"},{"Start":"00:50.705 ","End":"00:54.695","Text":"this is just 2 minus x times 2 minus x."},{"Start":"00:54.695 ","End":"00:56.600","Text":"That\u0027s what it means to be squared."},{"Start":"00:56.600 ","End":"00:59.135","Text":"I\u0027m just writing it out."},{"Start":"00:59.135 ","End":"01:03.770","Text":"Here, the first thing I can do is take out a constant 3."},{"Start":"01:03.770 ","End":"01:05.360","Text":"If I do that,"},{"Start":"01:05.360 ","End":"01:07.290","Text":"I\u0027ll get, let\u0027s see,"},{"Start":"01:07.290 ","End":"01:13.900","Text":"3 out of 12 leaves me 4 and just 1 x^2."},{"Start":"01:13.900 ","End":"01:17.875","Text":"This 4 minus x^2, I want to do it at the side,"},{"Start":"01:17.875 ","End":"01:20.285","Text":"because 4 minus x^2,"},{"Start":"01:20.285 ","End":"01:23.945","Text":"4 I can write as 2^2 minus x^2."},{"Start":"01:23.945 ","End":"01:25.715","Text":"Does this remind you of anything?"},{"Start":"01:25.715 ","End":"01:28.445","Text":"It should remind you of"},{"Start":"01:28.445 ","End":"01:30.030","Text":"the"},{"Start":"01:40.840 ","End":"01:42.260","Text":"difference"},{"Start":"01:42.260 ","End":"01:42.830","Text":"of squares"},{"Start":"01:42.830 ","End":"01:48.755","Text":"formula that if we have a^2 minus b^2,"},{"Start":"01:48.755 ","End":"01:56.390","Text":"that this factorizes as a plus b, a minus b."},{"Start":"01:56.390 ","End":"01:58.745","Text":"Or sometimes we write it in the other order."},{"Start":"01:58.745 ","End":"02:00.980","Text":"A minus b, a plus b."},{"Start":"02:00.980 ","End":"02:02.600","Text":"It doesn\u0027t really matter,"},{"Start":"02:02.600 ","End":"02:05.060","Text":"as long as 1 is a plus and 1 is a minus."},{"Start":"02:05.060 ","End":"02:07.534","Text":"Now if I apply this here,"},{"Start":"02:07.534 ","End":"02:13.570","Text":"what I get is that this is equal to 2 plus x,"},{"Start":"02:13.570 ","End":"02:20.505","Text":"2 minus x. I mean the a is the 2 and the b is the x."},{"Start":"02:20.505 ","End":"02:23.175","Text":"When I go back over here,"},{"Start":"02:23.175 ","End":"02:30.855","Text":"I can now write it as 3 and here times 2 plus x,"},{"Start":"02:30.855 ","End":"02:32.870","Text":"and 2 minus x."},{"Start":"02:32.870 ","End":"02:35.645","Text":"That\u0027s writing this as this."},{"Start":"02:35.645 ","End":"02:40.160","Text":"Now I want to cover all possible factors here."},{"Start":"02:40.160 ","End":"02:43.415","Text":"When I get my common denominator,"},{"Start":"02:43.415 ","End":"02:46.965","Text":"I\u0027ll just call it cd for the moment."},{"Start":"02:46.965 ","End":"02:48.390","Text":"A common denominator,"},{"Start":"02:48.390 ","End":"02:50.570","Text":"what I have to do is take all possible factors."},{"Start":"02:50.570 ","End":"02:52.630","Text":"I\u0027ll use colors here."},{"Start":"02:52.630 ","End":"02:57.570","Text":"Here, I have a 2 minus x and another 2 minus x."},{"Start":"02:57.570 ","End":"03:00.470","Text":"Here, I have a 2 minus x,"},{"Start":"03:00.470 ","End":"03:04.225","Text":"but I also have a 2 plus x,"},{"Start":"03:04.225 ","End":"03:06.420","Text":"and I also have a 3."},{"Start":"03:06.420 ","End":"03:10.310","Text":"I need to make sure that all of these go into the common denominator."},{"Start":"03:10.310 ","End":"03:13.075","Text":"I have to have at least 2 minus x,"},{"Start":"03:13.075 ","End":"03:17.000","Text":"2 minus x in order to accommodate the first one."},{"Start":"03:17.000 ","End":"03:18.545","Text":"For the second one,"},{"Start":"03:18.545 ","End":"03:20.690","Text":"I already have a 2 minus x,"},{"Start":"03:20.690 ","End":"03:23.525","Text":"but I still need the other factors."},{"Start":"03:23.525 ","End":"03:26.060","Text":"I need a 3 times 2 plus x,"},{"Start":"03:26.060 ","End":"03:27.635","Text":"let me put the 3 here."},{"Start":"03:27.635 ","End":"03:29.720","Text":"I don\u0027t like to put numbers in the middle."},{"Start":"03:29.720 ","End":"03:36.585","Text":"Then 2 plus x. I colored this while you weren\u0027t looking."},{"Start":"03:36.585 ","End":"03:39.410","Text":"Now that we have the common denominator,"},{"Start":"03:39.410 ","End":"03:45.160","Text":"I have to see how many times each one goes into the common denominator."},{"Start":"03:45.160 ","End":"03:48.435","Text":"This one goes into this one."},{"Start":"03:48.435 ","End":"03:52.455","Text":"What\u0027s left is the 3 times 2 plus x."},{"Start":"03:52.455 ","End":"03:56.820","Text":"This bit I write over here,"},{"Start":"03:56.820 ","End":"04:03.320","Text":"I write it 3 times 2 plus x."},{"Start":"04:03.320 ","End":"04:08.180","Text":"This is the missing bits that I needed to complete this to this,"},{"Start":"04:08.180 ","End":"04:11.390","Text":"and I have to multiply it by this numerator."},{"Start":"04:11.390 ","End":"04:15.100","Text":"Now, for the second one,"},{"Start":"04:15.100 ","End":"04:17.030","Text":"I have the 3,"},{"Start":"04:17.030 ","End":"04:18.230","Text":"I have this and I have this."},{"Start":"04:18.230 ","End":"04:21.575","Text":"I\u0027m just missing one more yellow one."},{"Start":"04:21.575 ","End":"04:23.135","Text":"I\u0027m missing from here to here,"},{"Start":"04:23.135 ","End":"04:28.700","Text":"a 2 minus x. I have to multiply it by this."},{"Start":"04:28.700 ","End":"04:30.875","Text":"Here, because I have a 0,"},{"Start":"04:30.875 ","End":"04:32.600","Text":"doesn\u0027t matter what I multiply."},{"Start":"04:32.600 ","End":"04:34.940","Text":"I should multiply by the whole common denominator,"},{"Start":"04:34.940 ","End":"04:40.175","Text":"but because it\u0027s a 0, you can multiply it by anything and it will still be 0."},{"Start":"04:40.175 ","End":"04:41.870","Text":"Maybe I\u0027ll go over it once more."},{"Start":"04:41.870 ","End":"04:44.420","Text":"It\u0027s important. I looked at each of these."},{"Start":"04:44.420 ","End":"04:48.265","Text":"This one here, is this here."},{"Start":"04:48.265 ","End":"04:53.660","Text":"I see what factors are missing from it in order to make it the common denominator."},{"Start":"04:53.660 ","End":"04:58.040","Text":"I see that this and this are missing and that\u0027s what I put here,"},{"Start":"04:58.040 ","End":"04:59.405","Text":"what it needs to complete."},{"Start":"04:59.405 ","End":"05:02.870","Text":"If I look at this, the only thing that\u0027s missing from this to be"},{"Start":"05:02.870 ","End":"05:06.620","Text":"this is an extra 2 minus x, which I put here."},{"Start":"05:06.620 ","End":"05:15.535","Text":"Normally, I would put over here the whole of the common denominator."},{"Start":"05:15.535 ","End":"05:19.775","Text":"But I don\u0027t need to here because this is 0."},{"Start":"05:19.775 ","End":"05:23.630","Text":"Now comes the routine part of just multiplying out."},{"Start":"05:23.630 ","End":"05:31.845","Text":"What I get is 3 times 3 times 2 plus x. I\u0027ll just write it,3 times 3 times 2 plus x."},{"Start":"05:31.845 ","End":"05:33.135","Text":"That covers the first."},{"Start":"05:33.135 ","End":"05:35.715","Text":"The second is 2 minus x times 5."},{"Start":"05:35.715 ","End":"05:38.425","Text":"I prefer to write the 5 in front."},{"Start":"05:38.425 ","End":"05:42.125","Text":"Here, as we said, whatever it was times 0 it\u0027s 0."},{"Start":"05:42.125 ","End":"05:44.330","Text":"But if it wasn\u0027t 0, if it was 1 here,"},{"Start":"05:44.330 ","End":"05:46.070","Text":"or 7 or whatever,"},{"Start":"05:46.070 ","End":"05:49.165","Text":"you would multiply by the common denominator."},{"Start":"05:49.165 ","End":"05:52.950","Text":"Let\u0027s open brackets and collect the like terms."},{"Start":"05:52.950 ","End":"05:56.370","Text":"From here, 3 times 3 is 9."},{"Start":"05:56.370 ","End":"05:59.080","Text":"In fact, I\u0027ll immediately think of this as 9,"},{"Start":"05:59.080 ","End":"06:02.880","Text":"9 times 2 is 18,"},{"Start":"06:02.880 ","End":"06:06.840","Text":"9 times x is 9x,"},{"Start":"06:06.840 ","End":"06:09.585","Text":"5 times 2 is 10,"},{"Start":"06:09.585 ","End":"06:13.945","Text":"5 times minus x is minus 5x=0."},{"Start":"06:13.945 ","End":"06:17.105","Text":"Leave the x\u0027s on the left and move the numbers to the right."},{"Start":"06:17.105 ","End":"06:22.035","Text":"X\u0027s I have 9 minus 5 let\u0027s just skip a step."},{"Start":"06:22.035 ","End":"06:29.300","Text":"9 minus 5 is 4x and 18 and 10 is 28,"},{"Start":"06:29.300 ","End":"06:34.385","Text":"which goes to the other side as minus 28 and dividing by 4,"},{"Start":"06:34.385 ","End":"06:37.865","Text":"I get that x equals minus 7."},{"Start":"06:37.865 ","End":"06:41.730","Text":"This is the answer. So we are done."}],"ID":4954},{"Watched":false,"Name":"Exercise 14 parts 1-3","Duration":"13m 32s","ChapterTopicVideoID":4955,"CourseChapterTopicPlaylistID":56126,"HasSubtitles":true,"ThumbnailPath":"https://www.proprep.com/Images/Videos_Thumbnails/4955.jpeg","UploadDate":"2016-02-11T15:46:03.6930000","DurationForVideoObject":"PT13M32S","Description":null,"VideoComments":[],"Subtitles":[{"Start":"00:00.140 ","End":"00:04.880","Text":"In this exercise, there are 6 equations to solve."},{"Start":"00:04.880 ","End":"00:07.200","Text":"In each of them, not only do we have to solve them,"},{"Start":"00:07.200 ","End":"00:11.640","Text":"but also to check or verify the solution at the end."},{"Start":"00:11.640 ","End":"00:14.655","Text":"Let\u0027s start with Number 1."},{"Start":"00:14.655 ","End":"00:18.240","Text":"I\u0027ve written them again with more room here."},{"Start":"00:18.240 ","End":"00:21.975","Text":"Let\u0027s start by expanding the brackets."},{"Start":"00:21.975 ","End":"00:27.180","Text":"We have 4x plus 1 equals 7 times 2 is"},{"Start":"00:27.180 ","End":"00:32.850","Text":"14 minus 7x plus 3x plus 3."},{"Start":"00:32.850 ","End":"00:36.510","Text":"Then we separate the variables and the numbers,"},{"Start":"00:36.510 ","End":"00:38.245","Text":"variables to the left."},{"Start":"00:38.245 ","End":"00:40.620","Text":"What we have on the left is 4x,"},{"Start":"00:40.620 ","End":"00:46.640","Text":"and then the 7x comes over as plus and the 3x as minus."},{"Start":"00:46.640 ","End":"00:50.030","Text":"On the right-hand side we have the 14 from here,"},{"Start":"00:50.030 ","End":"00:54.665","Text":"we have the 3 from here and the 1 comes over as minus,"},{"Start":"00:54.665 ","End":"01:00.420","Text":"then we"},{"Start":"01:00.420 ","End":"01:05.385","Text":"get 4 plus 7 minus 3 is,"},{"Start":"01:05.385 ","End":"01:08.310","Text":"see 11 minus 3 is 8x."},{"Start":"01:08.310 ","End":"01:16.335","Text":"8x is equal to 14 plus 3 minus 1,"},{"Start":"01:16.335 ","End":"01:19.500","Text":"17 minus 1 is 16,"},{"Start":"01:19.500 ","End":"01:29.260","Text":"and then divide by 8."},{"Start":"01:29.260 ","End":"01:35.870","Text":"Then clearly, we should divide by 8 and get that x=2."},{"Start":"01:35.870 ","End":"01:38.135","Text":"That\u0027s the solving part."},{"Start":"01:38.135 ","End":"01:41.230","Text":"Now let\u0027s go to the verification part."},{"Start":"01:41.230 ","End":"01:49.790","Text":"Now I have this equation and I want to substitute x=2 and see if it comes out true."},{"Start":"01:49.790 ","End":"01:55.015","Text":"I get 4 times 2 plus 1 equals,"},{"Start":"01:55.015 ","End":"01:58.115","Text":"but equals with a question mark because now I\u0027m checking it."},{"Start":"01:58.115 ","End":"02:00.870","Text":"I could\u0027ve made a mistake here,"},{"Start":"02:01.150 ","End":"02:06.500","Text":"equals 7 times 2 minus 2."},{"Start":"02:06.500 ","End":"02:14.190","Text":"Everywhere I see x, I put 2 plus 3 times 2 plus 3."},{"Start":"02:14.190 ","End":"02:20.835","Text":"Let\u0027s see, the left-hand side is 4 times 2 is 8 plus 1 is 9."},{"Start":"02:20.835 ","End":"02:24.290","Text":"Let\u0027s see if this equals the right-hand side."},{"Start":"02:24.290 ","End":"02:26.750","Text":"The right-hand side, well, 2 minus 2 is 0,"},{"Start":"02:26.750 ","End":"02:28.535","Text":"so this whole bit is 0."},{"Start":"02:28.535 ","End":"02:30.560","Text":"I\u0027ve got 3 times 2 plus 3,"},{"Start":"02:30.560 ","End":"02:31.940","Text":"which is 6 plus 3,"},{"Start":"02:31.940 ","End":"02:33.155","Text":"which is 9,"},{"Start":"02:33.155 ","End":"02:35.240","Text":"and the answer is yes,"},{"Start":"02:35.240 ","End":"02:42.630","Text":"it is equal 2 and so x=2 is a solution verified."},{"Start":"02:42.630 ","End":"02:45.345","Text":"Onto the next one."},{"Start":"02:45.345 ","End":"02:48.090","Text":"This equation is not an x,"},{"Start":"02:48.090 ","End":"02:50.510","Text":"it\u0027s an m. No problem."},{"Start":"02:50.510 ","End":"02:52.370","Text":"Open brackets."},{"Start":"02:52.370 ","End":"02:57.775","Text":"Twice m plus 4 is 2m plus 8."},{"Start":"02:57.775 ","End":"03:05.685","Text":"Then plus 6 equals 4 times 10 is 40 minus 4 times 2 is 8m."},{"Start":"03:05.685 ","End":"03:08.805","Text":"M\u0027s to the left, numbers to the right."},{"Start":"03:08.805 ","End":"03:15.005","Text":"2m from here, plus 8m from here."},{"Start":"03:15.005 ","End":"03:17.585","Text":"Then here we already had the 40,"},{"Start":"03:17.585 ","End":"03:21.350","Text":"8 comes over as minus 6 comes over as minus."},{"Start":"03:21.350 ","End":"03:30.350","Text":"What we have here is 10m equals, let\u0027s see now."},{"Start":"03:30.350 ","End":"03:39.020","Text":"40 minus 14 is 26."},{"Start":"03:39.020 ","End":"03:44.060","Text":"Then divide both sides by m. You know what?"},{"Start":"03:44.060 ","End":"03:48.680","Text":"I\u0027ll do it as a decimal because 10 is so easy to divide by the decimal."},{"Start":"03:48.680 ","End":"03:53.900","Text":"It\u0027s 2.6. Now, I want to check if this is"},{"Start":"03:53.900 ","End":"04:00.530","Text":"a solution to this equation."},{"Start":"04:00.530 ","End":"04:06.005","Text":"Let\u0027s substitute m=2.6 here."},{"Start":"04:06.005 ","End":"04:10.430","Text":"I\u0027ve got twice. Now m is 2.6."},{"Start":"04:10.430 ","End":"04:13.380","Text":"This is a decimal not a multiplication,"},{"Start":"04:13.380 ","End":"04:16.030","Text":"lets just be careful here."},{"Start":"04:16.400 ","End":"04:25.310","Text":"Plus 4 plus 6 equals question mark because that\u0027s what I\u0027m checking."},{"Start":"04:25.310 ","End":"04:31.915","Text":"Is it equal to 4 times 10 plus 2 times,"},{"Start":"04:31.915 ","End":"04:37.310","Text":"here I\u0027ll emphasize is a multiplication and this is 2.6."},{"Start":"04:37.310 ","End":"04:40.085","Text":"Perhaps I should have done it in fractions"},{"Start":"04:40.085 ","End":"04:45.320","Text":"because we can confuse the multiplication point with a decimal point."},{"Start":"04:45.320 ","End":"04:48.185","Text":"Let\u0027s be careful and not confuse them."},{"Start":"04:48.185 ","End":"04:53.420","Text":"2.6 plus 4 is 6.6,"},{"Start":"04:53.420 ","End":"04:57.230","Text":"6.6 times 2 is 13.2."},{"Start":"04:57.230 ","End":"04:59.300","Text":"If you\u0027re not good at doing this sort of thing in your head,"},{"Start":"04:59.300 ","End":"05:01.820","Text":"you can use the calculator."},{"Start":"05:01.820 ","End":"05:04.895","Text":"Anyway, 13.2, we said,"},{"Start":"05:04.895 ","End":"05:09.020","Text":"plus 6, that makes this 19.2."},{"Start":"05:09.020 ","End":"05:12.780","Text":"Now let\u0027s see if this equals the right-hand side."},{"Start":"05:14.030 ","End":"05:17.190","Text":"This is not a plus,"},{"Start":"05:17.190 ","End":"05:19.245","Text":"this is a minus I\u0027m sorry."},{"Start":"05:19.245 ","End":"05:24.690","Text":"Well, that\u0027s better. Twice 2.6 is 5.2."},{"Start":"05:24.690 ","End":"05:28.105","Text":"5.2 from 10 is 4.8."},{"Start":"05:28.105 ","End":"05:29.710","Text":"I\u0027ll just make a note of that."},{"Start":"05:29.710 ","End":"05:31.165","Text":"This part is 4.8."},{"Start":"05:31.165 ","End":"05:37.815","Text":"4 times 4.8 is indeed 19.2,"},{"Start":"05:37.815 ","End":"05:45.440","Text":"so yes, I would say these are equal and so this is a solution."},{"Start":"05:45.510 ","End":"05:50.210","Text":"2 down 4 more to go."},{"Start":"05:50.660 ","End":"05:53.740","Text":"Number 3 has fractions in it."},{"Start":"05:53.740 ","End":"05:56.770","Text":"The first thing we want to do is get rid of the fractions"},{"Start":"05:56.770 ","End":"06:00.455","Text":"by multiplying by a common denominator."},{"Start":"06:00.455 ","End":"06:02.805","Text":"If you look at 6, 3,"},{"Start":"06:02.805 ","End":"06:04.760","Text":"and 4 and think about it for a moment,"},{"Start":"06:04.760 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6,"},{"Start":"08:45.525 ","End":"08:49.620","Text":"plus 2 over 3."},{"Start":"08:49.620 ","End":"09:01.270","Text":"Is this equal to 3 times 10 over 13 over 4?"},{"Start":"09:01.270 ","End":"09:05.120","Text":"We have a bit of work with fractions to do."},{"Start":"09:05.120 ","End":"09:08.270","Text":"What we want to do is work on each one"},{"Start":"09:08.270 ","End":"09:11.360","Text":"separately and try and get it into a simple fraction."},{"Start":"09:11.360 ","End":"09:16.385","Text":"This one, if I just do the numerator,"},{"Start":"09:16.385 ","End":"09:20.305","Text":"the numerator here is,"},{"Start":"09:20.305 ","End":"09:23.300","Text":"one is 13 over 13,"},{"Start":"09:23.300 ","End":"09:26.165","Text":"and this is minus 20 over 13."},{"Start":"09:26.165 ","End":"09:28.775","Text":"Let me do the numerator in 1 step."},{"Start":"09:28.775 ","End":"09:37.910","Text":"Again. 13 over 13 minus twice 10 over 13 is 13 minus 20 is minus 7 over 13."},{"Start":"09:37.910 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","End":"01:46.610","Text":"For 2 unknowns,"},{"Start":"01:46.610 ","End":"01:48.470","Text":"we need 2 pieces of information in other words,"},{"Start":"01:48.470 ","End":"01:55.010","Text":"2 equations and together we usually put the one above the other with curly braces around"},{"Start":"01:55.010 ","End":"01:57.680","Text":"and this is called a system of"},{"Start":"01:57.680 ","End":"02:02.915","Text":"linear equations or a system of 2 equations and 2 unknowns x and y."},{"Start":"02:02.915 ","End":"02:06.005","Text":"That\u0027s just the introduction."},{"Start":"02:06.005 ","End":"02:08.615","Text":"Maybe I\u0027ll actually solve this."},{"Start":"02:08.615 ","End":"02:10.835","Text":"I\u0027ll leave it up there meanwhile, while I decide."},{"Start":"02:10.835 ","End":"02:16.135","Text":"But I\u0027ll start first with an easier example."},{"Start":"02:16.135 ","End":"02:20.585","Text":"We\u0027re going to use something called the method of substitution."},{"Start":"02:20.585 ","End":"02:22.895","Text":"There\u0027s going to be 2 main methods."},{"Start":"02:22.895 ","End":"02:25.880","Text":"One is going to be called substitution and"},{"Start":"02:25.880 ","End":"02:30.540","Text":"the other one is going to be called elimination and we have to know both."},{"Start":"02:30.540 ","End":"02:33.170","Text":"We\u0027re going to start off with the method of substitution."},{"Start":"02:33.170 ","End":"02:35.600","Text":"I\u0027ll give the easiest possible example."},{"Start":"02:35.600 ","End":"02:38.890","Text":"We start off slowly and gradually add features."},{"Start":"02:38.890 ","End":"02:43.625","Text":"Let me start with curly braces and I\u0027ll take the first one."},{"Start":"02:43.625 ","End":"02:52.470","Text":"Let\u0027s say 4x plus y=11"},{"Start":"02:52.470 ","End":"02:54.590","Text":"and for the second equation,"},{"Start":"02:54.590 ","End":"03:03.835","Text":"I will take y=3."},{"Start":"03:03.835 ","End":"03:06.655","Text":"Happen to place the equals one above the other."},{"Start":"03:06.655 ","End":"03:08.980","Text":"Notice that in the second equation,"},{"Start":"03:08.980 ","End":"03:10.600","Text":"x doesn\u0027t appear not so right,"},{"Start":"03:10.600 ","End":"03:14.215","Text":"I don\u0027t have to have both of them appearing in both equations."},{"Start":"03:14.215 ","End":"03:20.140","Text":"In fact, this is what makes the second equation easy to solve because in this case,"},{"Start":"03:20.140 ","End":"03:22.180","Text":"though it\u0027s a bit artificial,"},{"Start":"03:22.180 ","End":"03:24.750","Text":"I\u0027ve already given you what y is,"},{"Start":"03:24.750 ","End":"03:26.475","Text":"that y is 3."},{"Start":"03:26.475 ","End":"03:28.690","Text":"Hence the method of substitution."},{"Start":"03:28.690 ","End":"03:34.200","Text":"If I actually find one of the variables in this case y I didn\u0027t find it,"},{"Start":"03:34.200 ","End":"03:36.015","Text":"it was given but anyway,"},{"Start":"03:36.015 ","End":"03:39.640","Text":"so all I have to do is put this into this equation."},{"Start":"03:39.640 ","End":"03:43.275","Text":"We substitute y=3 in the first one."},{"Start":"03:43.275 ","End":"03:50.435","Text":"Then I copy the first equation and say 4x and instead of y, I put 3."},{"Start":"03:50.435 ","End":"03:58.100","Text":"This is what I substituted and then equals 11 and now I have one equation in x so"},{"Start":"03:58.100 ","End":"04:01.970","Text":"the usual variables on the left numbers on the right so"},{"Start":"04:01.970 ","End":"04:08.465","Text":"4x=11,-3 is 8 dividing by 4, x=2."},{"Start":"04:08.465 ","End":"04:10.850","Text":"Now, what do I do with this?"},{"Start":"04:10.850 ","End":"04:14.330","Text":"It\u0027s customary that when you give the answer,"},{"Start":"04:14.330 ","End":"04:16.580","Text":"you give the answer as a pair of x and"},{"Start":"04:16.580 ","End":"04:20.315","Text":"y. I like to also use the curly braces with the answer."},{"Start":"04:20.315 ","End":"04:24.470","Text":"I say the answer is x=2,"},{"Start":"04:24.470 ","End":"04:31.205","Text":"y=3 so an answer or solution is a pair of equalities what x is and what y is,"},{"Start":"04:31.205 ","End":"04:33.305","Text":"if x and y are the variables."},{"Start":"04:33.305 ","End":"04:35.780","Text":"That\u0027s the very first one,"},{"Start":"04:35.780 ","End":"04:39.155","Text":"very easy because we were given one of the variables."},{"Start":"04:39.155 ","End":"04:43.310","Text":"But this actually is a building block to be used later because often it\u0027s not so simple,"},{"Start":"04:43.310 ","End":"04:45.050","Text":"but somehow after hard work,"},{"Start":"04:45.050 ","End":"04:48.230","Text":"we find one of the variables then we can do"},{"Start":"04:48.230 ","End":"04:53.210","Text":"the substitution and find the other and this is the method of substitution."},{"Start":"04:53.210 ","End":"04:56.515","Text":"Let\u0027s take another one with this method."},{"Start":"04:56.515 ","End":"04:59.969","Text":"Next example will be"},{"Start":"04:59.969 ","End":"05:04.335","Text":"-2x plus"},{"Start":"05:04.335 ","End":"05:11.865","Text":"3y=13 curly braces,"},{"Start":"05:11.865 ","End":"05:13.710","Text":"and the second equation will"},{"Start":"05:13.710 ","End":"05:23.200","Text":"be x=y, -4."},{"Start":"05:24.880 ","End":"05:28.460","Text":"This time, I don\u0027t have exactly what one of"},{"Start":"05:28.460 ","End":"05:31.415","Text":"the variables is equal to that\u0027s too much to hope for."},{"Start":"05:31.415 ","End":"05:34.925","Text":"But I do have one variable isolated,"},{"Start":"05:34.925 ","End":"05:40.540","Text":"meaning on its own equaling something without x."},{"Start":"05:45.080 ","End":"05:51.980","Text":"What I can do is to put x into here again by substitution,"},{"Start":"05:51.980 ","End":"05:54.440","Text":"even though it\u0027s not a number, x is still some expression."},{"Start":"05:54.440 ","End":"05:57.275","Text":"I can plug it into the other equation."},{"Start":"05:57.275 ","End":"06:02.135","Text":"Now, this time what I get is -2."},{"Start":"06:02.135 ","End":"06:04.055","Text":"This time I\u0027m replacing x."},{"Start":"06:04.055 ","End":"06:05.420","Text":"Previously I replaced y."},{"Start":"06:05.420 ","End":"06:07.085","Text":"Here, I\u0027m substituting x,"},{"Start":"06:07.085 ","End":"06:10.435","Text":"instead of x, I\u0027ll put y, -4."},{"Start":"06:10.435 ","End":"06:12.205","Text":"That\u0027s this x here,"},{"Start":"06:12.205 ","End":"06:18.000","Text":"I\u0027m putting something equal to it and then the rest of it I copy, +3y=13."},{"Start":"06:18.340 ","End":"06:22.665","Text":"Now, I have an equation in y just one variable."},{"Start":"06:22.665 ","End":"06:27.270","Text":"Open brackets -2y - times - is +,"},{"Start":"06:27.270 ","End":"06:33.875","Text":"8+3y=13 variables on the left, numbers on the right,"},{"Start":"06:33.875 ","End":"06:36.890","Text":"the variable is y this time."},{"Start":"06:36.890 ","End":"06:46.180","Text":"What do we have? We have minus 2y+3y=13 minus 8."},{"Start":"06:46.180 ","End":"06:51.060","Text":"Minus 2y plus 3y is just y,"},{"Start":"06:51.060 ","End":"06:55.680","Text":"1y, which is y and 13-8 is 5."},{"Start":"06:55.680 ","End":"07:03.795","Text":"Now I have y=5 and now that I have y=5,"},{"Start":"07:03.795 ","End":"07:06.489","Text":"like in the previous case just substitute it,"},{"Start":"07:06.489 ","End":"07:08.635","Text":"but where should I substitute it?"},{"Start":"07:08.635 ","End":"07:11.545","Text":"I could substitute it in either one of these 2."},{"Start":"07:11.545 ","End":"07:14.290","Text":"But this somehow looks simpler,"},{"Start":"07:14.290 ","End":"07:17.860","Text":"smaller numbers and also it gives me immediately what"},{"Start":"07:17.860 ","End":"07:21.550","Text":"x is in terms of y so I\u0027ll substitute this one into"},{"Start":"07:21.550 ","End":"07:30.375","Text":"this equation and rewrite this one over here as x = instead of y -4,"},{"Start":"07:30.375 ","End":"07:32.220","Text":"I have y is 5,"},{"Start":"07:32.220 ","End":"07:35.040","Text":"so it\u0027s 5 -4."},{"Start":"07:35.040 ","End":"07:41.280","Text":"That means that x=1."},{"Start":"07:41.280 ","End":"07:45.740","Text":"As usual, like to write the answer with curly brackets."},{"Start":"07:45.740 ","End":"07:47.185","Text":"Let\u0027s say right there over here,"},{"Start":"07:47.185 ","End":"07:50.180","Text":"so the solution is a pair of numbers,"},{"Start":"07:50.180 ","End":"07:53.575","Text":"x and y. X is 1,"},{"Start":"07:53.575 ","End":"07:56.450","Text":"y is 5,"},{"Start":"07:56.450 ","End":"07:58.325","Text":"and that\u0027s the answer to this one."},{"Start":"07:58.325 ","End":"08:00.610","Text":"For the last one,"},{"Start":"08:00.610 ","End":"08:03.980","Text":"why don\u0027t I just take this because I already in"},{"Start":"08:03.980 ","End":"08:07.010","Text":"my head know the answer maybe you do too and maybe you\u0027ve forgotten it."},{"Start":"08:07.010 ","End":"08:09.300","Text":"I won\u0027t tell you again."},{"Start":"08:10.250 ","End":"08:13.320","Text":"Remember this was a story problem, 2 brothers,"},{"Start":"08:13.320 ","End":"08:18.885","Text":"the sum of their ages is 10 and the difference is 2 we did it abstractly here."},{"Start":"08:18.885 ","End":"08:24.520","Text":"I can use this trick here each time I\u0027m building a level."},{"Start":"08:24.520 ","End":"08:28.265","Text":"This time I don\u0027t even have one in terms of the other,"},{"Start":"08:28.265 ","End":"08:29.690","Text":"but with a little effort,"},{"Start":"08:29.690 ","End":"08:32.180","Text":"very small effort I can make it so."},{"Start":"08:32.180 ","End":"08:36.545","Text":"For example, if I took the second equation and brought y to the other side,"},{"Start":"08:36.545 ","End":"08:42.050","Text":"the second equation could become x = bringing"},{"Start":"08:42.050 ","End":"08:48.410","Text":"this over y plus 2 just by taking the y over to the other side."},{"Start":"08:48.410 ","End":"08:51.410","Text":"Now I can use the trick like here,"},{"Start":"08:51.410 ","End":"08:54.020","Text":"substituting this in here again,"},{"Start":"08:54.020 ","End":"08:56.915","Text":"I\u0027m substituting x, we\u0027ll get an equation in y."},{"Start":"08:56.915 ","End":"08:59.690","Text":"Instead of x, I write y+2."},{"Start":"08:59.690 ","End":"09:05.030","Text":"Y+2, I\u0027m just putting it in parentheses for emphasis that this was x+ y=10."},{"Start":"09:05.030 ","End":"09:07.420","Text":"Let\u0027s see, 2y+2,"},{"Start":"09:07.420 ","End":"09:12.420","Text":"y+y=10, 2y=10 minus 2 is 8 so y=4."},{"Start":"09:12.420 ","End":"09:16.056","Text":"I remember that\u0027s what we had,"},{"Start":"09:16.056 ","End":"09:19.292","Text":"the younger brother was 4."},{"Start":"09:19.292 ","End":"09:24.371","Text":"Now again, we have to substitute and it\u0027s"},{"Start":"09:24.371 ","End":"09:30.328","Text":"going to be easier to substitute in this one here,"},{"Start":"09:30.328 ","End":"09:35.486","Text":"because then it\u0027ll give me x right away."},{"Start":"09:35.486 ","End":"09:38.848","Text":"I\u0027ll put this one in here,"},{"Start":"09:38.848 ","End":"09:41.616","Text":"and I\u0027ve got now,"},{"Start":"09:41.616 ","End":"09:46.939","Text":"this one becomes x equals instead of y,"},{"Start":"09:46.939 ","End":"09:48.824","Text":"I put 4 and +2."},{"Start":"09:48.824 ","End":"09:53.050","Text":"Now I just compute 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previous clip on"},{"Start":"00:03.570 ","End":"00:06.975","Text":"the method of substitution for linear equations in 2 unknowns."},{"Start":"00:06.975 ","End":"00:08.730","Text":"It\u0027s a continuation."},{"Start":"00:08.730 ","End":"00:12.075","Text":"I\u0027ll indicate that with Part 2."},{"Start":"00:12.075 ","End":"00:14.880","Text":"Let\u0027s do some more example."},{"Start":"00:14.880 ","End":"00:18.510","Text":"Let\u0027s see 2x plus"},{"Start":"00:18.510 ","End":"00:28.600","Text":"3y=5 and 5x plus 7y=11."},{"Start":"00:28.810 ","End":"00:36.110","Text":"As you can see, it\u0027s not very easy to get 1 variable in terms of the other."},{"Start":"00:36.110 ","End":"00:38.660","Text":"All the coefficients are not 1."},{"Start":"00:38.660 ","End":"00:41.990","Text":"There\u0027s no easy way to say x equals or y equals."},{"Start":"00:41.990 ","End":"00:43.565","Text":"We\u0027ll have to work a bit."},{"Start":"00:43.565 ","End":"00:47.060","Text":"In actual fact, this particular system"},{"Start":"00:47.060 ","End":"00:50.150","Text":"of equations is better done with the other method that we\u0027ll learn."},{"Start":"00:50.150 ","End":"00:51.800","Text":"It\u0027s called method of elimination,"},{"Start":"00:51.800 ","End":"00:55.820","Text":"but I want to show you that you can always just use the method of substitution."},{"Start":"00:55.820 ","End":"00:58.160","Text":"It\u0027s just going to be a bit more cumbersome here."},{"Start":"00:58.160 ","End":"01:01.200","Text":"But here it goes."},{"Start":"01:01.200 ","End":"01:03.195","Text":"I don\u0027t have an easy way."},{"Start":"01:03.195 ","End":"01:06.435","Text":"I look at what seems to me the easiest."},{"Start":"01:06.435 ","End":"01:08.950","Text":"I think I\u0027ll take x from the first equation."},{"Start":"01:08.950 ","End":"01:10.795","Text":"I only have to divide it by 2."},{"Start":"01:10.795 ","End":"01:13.540","Text":"Whatever way I do it, I\u0027m going to get 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","End":"02:46.565","Text":"I want to multiply by this denominator,"},{"Start":"02:46.565 ","End":"02:48.770","Text":"just like we used to do in 1 variable."},{"Start":"02:48.770 ","End":"02:53.280","Text":"I write that my common denominator is 2,"},{"Start":"02:53.280 ","End":"02:56.625","Text":"and I\u0027m going to multiply by 2 on the left and on the right."},{"Start":"02:56.625 ","End":"02:59.865","Text":"Multiplying on the left means multiplying each one."},{"Start":"02:59.865 ","End":"03:02.930","Text":"What we do is like we used to do, 2 into 2,"},{"Start":"03:02.930 ","End":"03:06.820","Text":"goes 1 time and write the 1 here."},{"Start":"03:06.820 ","End":"03:09.470","Text":"This is not a fraction,"},{"Start":"03:09.470 ","End":"03:14.105","Text":"so I need to multiply it by the full 2 and here by 2."},{"Start":"03:14.105 ","End":"03:19.070","Text":"Now we get 1 times this is just whatever it is,"},{"Start":"03:19.070 ","End":"03:23.215","Text":"5 times minus 3y plus 5."},{"Start":"03:23.215 ","End":"03:30.035","Text":"Twice 7y is 14y and twice 11 is 22."},{"Start":"03:30.035 ","End":"03:32.030","Text":"Now we\u0027re in familiar territory."},{"Start":"03:32.030 ","End":"03:35.180","Text":"Expand the brackets, 5 by each of these,"},{"Start":"03:35.180 ","End":"03:39.305","Text":"so we get minus 15y plus 25,"},{"Start":"03:39.305 ","End":"03:43.640","Text":"then plus 14y equals 22, as is."},{"Start":"03:43.640 ","End":"03:47.310","Text":"Now variables on the left numbers on the right."},{"Start":"03:47.380 ","End":"03:54.995","Text":"Minus 15y plus 14y equals 22 minus 25."},{"Start":"03:54.995 ","End":"03:57.635","Text":"Let me continue over here."},{"Start":"03:57.635 ","End":"04:04.790","Text":"What we have is minus y here because minus 15 plus 14 is minus 1."},{"Start":"04:04.790 ","End":"04:06.395","Text":"I don\u0027t need to write the 1,"},{"Start":"04:06.395 ","End":"04:12.250","Text":"so it\u0027s just minus y equals minus 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","End":"05:07.200","Text":"Minus 9 plus 5 is minus 4."},{"Start":"05:07.420 ","End":"05:10.875","Text":"Minus 4/2, the minus stays."},{"Start":"05:10.875 ","End":"05:13.290","Text":"Negative over positive and 4/2 is 2,"},{"Start":"05:13.290 ","End":"05:16.125","Text":"so it\u0027s just minus 2."},{"Start":"05:16.125 ","End":"05:21.150","Text":"Now I have that x equals minus 2."},{"Start":"05:21.150 ","End":"05:25.530","Text":"I have underlined them both x and y."},{"Start":"05:25.530 ","End":"05:29.555","Text":"Finally, somewhere at the side or anywhere I can find space,"},{"Start":"05:29.555 ","End":"05:34.505","Text":"I write the answer is x equals minus 2."},{"Start":"05:34.505 ","End":"05:40.970","Text":"Usually put the x first and the y second and the curly braces and y=3."},{"Start":"05:40.970 ","End":"05:45.359","Text":"This is the solution."}],"ID":4960},{"Watched":false,"Name":"Substitution - Part c","Duration":"6m 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geometry but never mind that."},{"Start":"00:33.990 ","End":"00:37.500","Text":"Let\u0027s just take it as given this situation occurs,"},{"Start":"00:37.500 ","End":"00:41.875","Text":"which is why I brought an example of y equals something and y equals something."},{"Start":"00:41.875 ","End":"00:44.915","Text":"Now, we can do it by substitution and say,"},{"Start":"00:44.915 ","End":"00:46.505","Text":"\"Okay, the first one,"},{"Start":"00:46.505 ","End":"00:48.755","Text":"y is already in terms of x,"},{"Start":"00:48.755 ","End":"00:55.270","Text":"let\u0027s substitute it in the second and we get 2x minus 3=x plus 2.\""},{"Start":"00:55.270 ","End":"00:58.360","Text":"Of course, you could also look at it in a commonsense way and say,"},{"Start":"00:58.360 ","End":"01:01.670","Text":"\"If these 2 things are each equal to a common thing,"},{"Start":"01:01.670 ","End":"01:04.094","Text":"y, then they\u0027re equal among themselves.\""},{"Start":"01:04.094 ","End":"01:06.980","Text":"You could look at it that way or you could do it by substitution."},{"Start":"01:06.980 ","End":"01:11.075","Text":"In any event, this is now 1 equation with 1 unknown."},{"Start":"01:11.075 ","End":"01:13.340","Text":"Let\u0027s bring the x over to the other side."},{"Start":"01:13.340 ","End":"01:15.380","Text":"You know what, we already can do it in our heads,"},{"Start":"01:15.380 ","End":"01:18.140","Text":"2x minus x is x."},{"Start":"01:18.140 ","End":"01:22.510","Text":"Bring the 3 over, it\u0027s 2 plus 3=5,"},{"Start":"01:22.510 ","End":"01:26.240","Text":"and that\u0027s it for x."},{"Start":"01:26.240 ","End":"01:29.060","Text":"Don\u0027t forget that we also have to find y."},{"Start":"01:29.060 ","End":"01:31.130","Text":"Now, once you\u0027ve got x,"},{"Start":"01:31.130 ","End":"01:34.715","Text":"you can put y either here or here, whichever suits you."},{"Start":"01:34.715 ","End":"01:37.490","Text":"It\u0027s going to be slightly easier with the second I think."},{"Start":"01:37.490 ","End":"01:40.040","Text":"Let\u0027s say that now y=x,"},{"Start":"01:40.040 ","End":"01:46.420","Text":"which is 5 plus 2, so y=7."},{"Start":"01:46.420 ","End":"01:49.860","Text":"I\u0027m not going to bother with the curly braces x=5,"},{"Start":"01:49.860 ","End":"01:52.185","Text":"y=7, that\u0027s the solution."},{"Start":"01:52.185 ","End":"01:56.305","Text":"Now, one more and last example."},{"Start":"01:56.305 ","End":"02:01.655","Text":"I just went ahead and wrote it out to save time."},{"Start":"02:01.655 ","End":"02:06.200","Text":"The thing here is just they make you work a little bit."},{"Start":"02:06.200 ","End":"02:07.670","Text":"If you get an exercise like this,"},{"Start":"02:07.670 ","End":"02:11.120","Text":"it\u0027s just not neatly arranged."},{"Start":"02:11.120 ","End":"02:13.820","Text":"That\u0027s all the difference there is."},{"Start":"02:13.820 ","End":"02:18.980","Text":"Let\u0027s see what happens if we bring everything to the left,"},{"Start":"02:18.980 ","End":"02:23.390","Text":"variables to the left, numbers to the right, or whatever."},{"Start":"02:23.390 ","End":"02:25.845","Text":"Take the first one."},{"Start":"02:25.845 ","End":"02:28.050","Text":"Let\u0027s put the x\u0027s first."},{"Start":"02:28.050 ","End":"02:35.670","Text":"We can do it mentally 4x plus 2x on the left-hand side is 6x."},{"Start":"02:35.670 ","End":"02:39.660","Text":"Now, the y terms,"},{"Start":"02:39.660 ","End":"02:41.310","Text":"I\u0027m bringing them also to the left,"},{"Start":"02:41.310 ","End":"02:44.820","Text":"I\u0027ve got a minus y and I\u0027ve got a minus 2y."},{"Start":"02:44.820 ","End":"02:47.235","Text":"That\u0027s minus 3y."},{"Start":"02:47.235 ","End":"02:48.915","Text":"Numbers to the right,"},{"Start":"02:48.915 ","End":"02:54.195","Text":"plus 15 minus 3 equals 12."},{"Start":"02:54.195 ","End":"02:57.780","Text":"Now, the second 1. To the x\u0027s first,"},{"Start":"02:57.780 ","End":"03:04.240","Text":"minus 4x plus x is minus 3x."},{"Start":"03:04.880 ","End":"03:08.600","Text":"Let\u0027s see the y, we\u0027ve got here plus 2y,"},{"Start":"03:08.600 ","End":"03:15.330","Text":"then we\u0027ll get a minus y is plus y."},{"Start":"03:16.340 ","End":"03:19.920","Text":"Then numbers on the right,"},{"Start":"03:19.920 ","End":"03:25.184","Text":"we have minus 6 and then minus 1 is minus"},{"Start":"03:25.184 ","End":"03:30.860","Text":"7 This is what we get after tidying up."},{"Start":"03:30.860 ","End":"03:34.460","Text":"Now, there\u0027s a recommendation I\u0027d like to make."},{"Start":"03:34.460 ","End":"03:36.920","Text":"That is if you happen to notice,"},{"Start":"03:36.920 ","End":"03:41.060","Text":"I just noticed that everything here is divisible by 3."},{"Start":"03:41.060 ","End":"03:45.290","Text":"Then I recommend doing that and work will go quicker,"},{"Start":"03:45.290 ","End":"03:50.045","Text":"but I\u0027m going to assume that you didn\u0027t notice it and just proceed as usual."},{"Start":"03:50.045 ","End":"03:52.915","Text":"But I\u0027ll just write that down"},{"Start":"03:52.915 ","End":"03:55.910","Text":"and you might want to try this on your own later to continue,"},{"Start":"03:55.910 ","End":"04:00.860","Text":"but I could have written this now is 2x minus y=4,"},{"Start":"04:00.860 ","End":"04:02.750","Text":"if I divide it by 3,"},{"Start":"04:02.750 ","End":"04:05.945","Text":"but I\u0027ll assume that you didn\u0027t notice it."},{"Start":"04:05.945 ","End":"04:07.910","Text":"Now, if I look at this,"},{"Start":"04:07.910 ","End":"04:12.260","Text":"I see that I have a single y here, coefficient 1."},{"Start":"04:12.260 ","End":"04:15.035","Text":"What I\u0027d like to do is isolate y,"},{"Start":"04:15.035 ","End":"04:17.255","Text":"or extract y, and then substitute."},{"Start":"04:17.255 ","End":"04:19.280","Text":"From the second equation,"},{"Start":"04:19.280 ","End":"04:25.830","Text":"I get y equals minus 7 plus 3x."},{"Start":"04:25.830 ","End":"04:27.450","Text":"We\u0027ll write the x\u0027s first,"},{"Start":"04:27.450 ","End":"04:29.940","Text":"plus 3x minus 7,"},{"Start":"04:29.940 ","End":"04:32.595","Text":"that\u0027s by bringing the 3x to this side."},{"Start":"04:32.595 ","End":"04:38.755","Text":"Now, I substitute this after substituting the other 1 in the first equation in here."},{"Start":"04:38.755 ","End":"04:47.310","Text":"Then I will get 6x minus 3 times y is this."},{"Start":"04:47.310 ","End":"04:51.670","Text":"3x minus 7=12."},{"Start":"04:51.670 ","End":"04:55.170","Text":"Expand the brackets."},{"Start":"04:55.170 ","End":"05:00.280","Text":"We\u0027ve got 6x minus 3 times 3 is 9x,"},{"Start":"05:00.280 ","End":"05:05.420","Text":"minus minus is plus 21=12."},{"Start":"05:05.420 ","End":"05:08.000","Text":"x\u0027s to the left, numbers on the right,"},{"Start":"05:08.000 ","End":"05:12.020","Text":"6x minus 9x is minus 3x."},{"Start":"05:12.020 ","End":"05:19.350","Text":"On the right, 12 minus 21 is minus 9."},{"Start":"05:19.660 ","End":"05:21.800","Text":"That gives us,"},{"Start":"05:21.800 ","End":"05:23.540","Text":"I\u0027m running out of space here,"},{"Start":"05:23.540 ","End":"05:29.615","Text":"so gives us that x equals minus 9 over minus 3,"},{"Start":"05:29.615 ","End":"05:31.840","Text":"which is plus 3."},{"Start":"05:31.840 ","End":"05:33.615","Text":"After I have this,"},{"Start":"05:33.615 ","End":"05:37.720","Text":"I now substitute it in this one here."},{"Start":"05:37.720 ","End":"05:40.580","Text":"Because that will give me y straightaway."},{"Start":"05:40.580 ","End":"05:47.135","Text":"I get that y=3 times and x is,"},{"Start":"05:47.135 ","End":"05:50.345","Text":"yeah, I meant to say 3."},{"Start":"05:50.345 ","End":"05:56.220","Text":"There we go. Then minus 7,"},{"Start":"05:56.220 ","End":"05:58.650","Text":"so 3 times 3 is 9,"},{"Start":"05:58.650 ","End":"06:00.705","Text":"9 minus 7 is 2."},{"Start":"06:00.705 ","End":"06:02.895","Text":"So y=2."},{"Start":"06:02.895 ","End":"06:06.040","Text":"So x=3, y=2."},{"Start":"06:06.040 ","End":"06:13.325","Text":"I\u0027m going to skip the curly braces part and we are done with this topic."},{"Start":"06:13.325 ","End":"06:15.305","Text":"Next coming up."},{"Start":"06:15.305 ","End":"06:19.470","Text":"Method of elimination. That\u0027s all."}],"ID":4961},{"Watched":false,"Name":"Elimination - Part a","Duration":"6m 26s","ChapterTopicVideoID":4968,"CourseChapterTopicPlaylistID":56127,"HasSubtitles":true,"ThumbnailPath":"https://www.proprep.com/Images/Videos_Thumbnails/4968.jpeg","UploadDate":"2020-09-30T08:42:58.8770000","DurationForVideoObject":"PT6M26S","Description":null,"VideoComments":[],"Subtitles":[{"Start":"00:00.000 ","End":"00:03.960","Text":"Here we\u0027re going to continue with linear equation in 2 unknowns, but don\u0027t worry,"},{"Start":"00:03.960 ","End":"00:06.540","Text":"we\u0027re done with the method of substitution,"},{"Start":"00:06.540 ","End":"00:10.120","Text":"and instead of that, we\u0027re going to learn elimination."},{"Start":"00:10.120 ","End":"00:12.825","Text":"We\u0027ll begin with an easy example,"},{"Start":"00:12.825 ","End":"00:15.910","Text":"a basic example for elimination."},{"Start":"00:15.910 ","End":"00:24.450","Text":"Let\u0027s say 2x+3= 5"},{"Start":"00:24.450 ","End":"00:32.170","Text":", and that 2x-3y=3."},{"Start":"00:32.170 ","End":"00:37.430","Text":"What I want you to note here is that,"},{"Start":"00:37.430 ","End":"00:44.555","Text":"we have the same term in opposite signs in these 2 equations."},{"Start":"00:44.555 ","End":"00:47.930","Text":"This is the best case and in this case,"},{"Start":"00:47.930 ","End":"00:51.770","Text":"you almost have to do it by elimination. Well, you don\u0027t have to."},{"Start":"00:51.770 ","End":"00:58.010","Text":"You can always just use substitution but it becomes so easy to do it by elimination."},{"Start":"00:58.010 ","End":"01:01.530","Text":"The idea is this."},{"Start":"01:01.530 ","End":"01:04.900","Text":"Something else you can do with equations that we haven\u0027t talked about before."},{"Start":"01:04.900 ","End":"01:07.150","Text":"If you have 2 equations, you can add them,"},{"Start":"01:07.150 ","End":"01:08.920","Text":"meaning you can add the left-hand side,"},{"Start":"01:08.920 ","End":"01:10.600","Text":"and add the right-hand sides."},{"Start":"01:10.600 ","End":"01:12.640","Text":"If 2 things are equal,"},{"Start":"01:12.640 ","End":"01:15.385","Text":"and these 2 other things are equal,"},{"Start":"01:15.385 ","End":"01:17.200","Text":"then if you add them, they\u0027re equal."},{"Start":"01:17.200 ","End":"01:20.905","Text":"It\u0027s just like saying if 3 equals 3,"},{"Start":"01:20.905 ","End":"01:22.540","Text":"and 6 equals 6,"},{"Start":"01:22.540 ","End":"01:25.925","Text":"and we add them, then 9 equals 9."},{"Start":"01:25.925 ","End":"01:29.830","Text":"It doesn\u0027t make sense in algebra so much, but that\u0027s the idea."},{"Start":"01:29.830 ","End":"01:32.469","Text":"We\u0027re going to add these 2 equations."},{"Start":"01:32.469 ","End":"01:35.290","Text":"The first time I\u0027ll emphasize this,"},{"Start":"01:35.290 ","End":"01:36.880","Text":"I\u0027ll just say, \"Okay,"},{"Start":"01:36.880 ","End":"01:37.960","Text":"I\u0027m putting a plus,"},{"Start":"01:37.960 ","End":"01:41.233","Text":"I\u0027m adding these 2 equations just like we do with arithmetic,"},{"Start":"01:41.233 ","End":"01:43.305","Text":"and put an equals sign.\""},{"Start":"01:43.305 ","End":"01:50.550","Text":"Then what we get if we do the addition is 2x+2x=4x."},{"Start":"01:51.320 ","End":"01:54.830","Text":"The plus 3y and the minus 3y, if you add them,"},{"Start":"01:54.830 ","End":"01:56.750","Text":"cancel each other out or it\u0027s 0,"},{"Start":"01:56.750 ","End":"02:00.140","Text":"but I\u0027m not going to put plus 0, or whatever."},{"Start":"02:00.140 ","End":"02:01.310","Text":"This is the elimination,"},{"Start":"02:01.310 ","End":"02:02.795","Text":"y is eliminated,"},{"Start":"02:02.795 ","End":"02:05.090","Text":"5 plus 3 is 8."},{"Start":"02:05.090 ","End":"02:06.875","Text":"When you have this case,"},{"Start":"02:06.875 ","End":"02:10.160","Text":"add them, eliminated y."},{"Start":"02:10.160 ","End":"02:13.670","Text":"Now we\u0027ve got an equation in 1 variable 4x=8,"},{"Start":"02:13.670 ","End":"02:16.175","Text":"so clearly, x=2."},{"Start":"02:16.175 ","End":"02:18.140","Text":"That\u0027s x found."},{"Start":"02:18.140 ","End":"02:20.130","Text":"Now, we eliminated y,"},{"Start":"02:20.130 ","End":"02:21.840","Text":"but we still want to find it."},{"Start":"02:21.840 ","End":"02:25.325","Text":"I take this one and put it in one of the two above."},{"Start":"02:25.325 ","End":"02:26.690","Text":"I don\u0027t know which,"},{"Start":"02:26.690 ","End":"02:30.830","Text":"let\u0027s just say we put it in this one, it\u0027s closer."},{"Start":"02:30.830 ","End":"02:34.100","Text":"I don\u0027t know. Either one will do of course."},{"Start":"02:34.100 ","End":"02:36.170","Text":"We get in the second one,"},{"Start":"02:36.170 ","End":"02:39.665","Text":"twice x twice 2,"},{"Start":"02:39.665 ","End":"02:45.970","Text":"put it in brackets for emphasis, minus 3y=3."},{"Start":"02:45.970 ","End":"02:48.610","Text":"Just putting the x=2 here,"},{"Start":"02:49.070 ","End":"02:52.830","Text":"2 times 2 is 4."},{"Start":"02:52.830 ","End":"02:56.385","Text":"Let\u0027s bring it to the other side also,"},{"Start":"02:56.385 ","End":"03:03.670","Text":"I have -3y=3-4,"},{"Start":"03:03.920 ","End":"03:07.905","Text":"which is minus 1."},{"Start":"03:07.905 ","End":"03:13.823","Text":"Then divide both sides by 3,"},{"Start":"03:13.823 ","End":"03:22.520","Text":"and I\u0027ve got the y equals minus 1 over minus 3."},{"Start":"03:22.520 ","End":"03:25.355","Text":"Minus over minus is plus, so it\u0027s a 1/3."},{"Start":"03:25.355 ","End":"03:31.280","Text":"I could write my answer as curly braces."},{"Start":"03:31.280 ","End":"03:34.730","Text":"We\u0027ll put it over here, x=2,"},{"Start":"03:34.730 ","End":"03:39.905","Text":"y=1/3, that\u0027s the answer."},{"Start":"03:39.905 ","End":"03:43.010","Text":"This is the basic case."},{"Start":"03:43.010 ","End":"03:48.939","Text":"Let\u0027s do another."},{"Start":"03:48.939 ","End":"03:54.623","Text":"5x+y=5,"},{"Start":"03:54.623 ","End":"04:02.790","Text":"and the other equation, 5x+2y=14."},{"Start":"04:02.790 ","End":"04:08.225","Text":"We look at this and we\u0027re not quite in the case where we have an opposite pair,"},{"Start":"04:08.225 ","End":"04:11.270","Text":"like here and here, but we\u0027re close to it."},{"Start":"04:11.270 ","End":"04:13.790","Text":"With the y\u0027s there\u0027s no match with the x there\u0027s a match,"},{"Start":"04:13.790 ","End":"04:15.500","Text":"but not with the sign."},{"Start":"04:15.500 ","End":"04:17.360","Text":"That\u0027s easily fixed."},{"Start":"04:17.360 ","End":"04:20.810","Text":"All we do is to multiply one of them,"},{"Start":"04:20.810 ","End":"04:24.725","Text":"so the second one by minus 1,"},{"Start":"04:24.725 ","End":"04:33.710","Text":"then this one becomes, -5x-2y=-14."},{"Start":"04:33.710 ","End":"04:35.648","Text":"Just reverse the signs of everything."},{"Start":"04:35.648 ","End":"04:36.769","Text":"They all happen to be plus,"},{"Start":"04:36.769 ","End":"04:38.675","Text":"so we get all minuses."},{"Start":"04:38.675 ","End":"04:40.999","Text":"Again, we do an addition,"},{"Start":"04:40.999 ","End":"04:42.785","Text":"this time not with these two,"},{"Start":"04:42.785 ","End":"04:44.255","Text":"but with these two."},{"Start":"04:44.255 ","End":"04:46.818","Text":"We add these two together,"},{"Start":"04:46.818 ","End":"04:49.350","Text":"and what we will get is as follows;"},{"Start":"04:49.350 ","End":"04:52.510","Text":"5x and minus 5x is 0."},{"Start":"04:52.510 ","End":"04:53.885","Text":"I don\u0027t write anything,"},{"Start":"04:53.885 ","End":"04:55.100","Text":"they cancel each other out."},{"Start":"04:55.100 ","End":"05:05.153","Text":"We\u0027ve eliminated x. Y and minus 2y is minus y,"},{"Start":"05:05.153 ","End":"05:11.730","Text":"and 5 and minus 14 is minus 9."},{"Start":"05:11.730 ","End":"05:15.290","Text":"We said before if you have 2 minuses you can just throw out the minuses,"},{"Start":"05:15.290 ","End":"05:20.615","Text":"but what we\u0027re really doing is dividing or multiplying by minus 1, and so that\u0027s y."},{"Start":"05:20.615 ","End":"05:25.160","Text":"Now, I have to find x. I\u0027ll choose either one of these."},{"Start":"05:25.160 ","End":"05:26.750","Text":"I go for the ones with the smaller number,"},{"Start":"05:26.750 ","End":"05:31.530","Text":"so I\u0027ll put it into the first one to here."},{"Start":"05:31.530 ","End":"05:37.860","Text":"Then if y is 9 I\u0027ve got 5x plus, instead of y,"},{"Start":"05:37.860 ","End":"05:47.040","Text":"I\u0027ll put 9, the bracket is just for emphasis is equal to 5."},{"Start":"05:47.040 ","End":"05:52.430","Text":"If I bring the number over to the other side,"},{"Start":"05:52.430 ","End":"05:57.155","Text":"I\u0027ve got 5x=5-9 is minus 4."},{"Start":"05:57.155 ","End":"06:03.515","Text":"Dividing by 5, x equals minus 4/5."},{"Start":"06:03.515 ","End":"06:09.390","Text":"That\u0027s x, and I\u0027ll just put the solution."},{"Start":"06:09.390 ","End":"06:16.185","Text":"The solution is x equals minus 4/5,"},{"Start":"06:16.185 ","End":"06:20.395","Text":"and y equals 9."},{"Start":"06:20.395 ","End":"06:26.580","Text":"Let\u0027s take a break here and another couple of examples in the next clip."}],"ID":4957},{"Watched":false,"Name":"Elimination - Part b","Duration":"7m 28s","ChapterTopicVideoID":4967,"CourseChapterTopicPlaylistID":56127,"HasSubtitles":true,"ThumbnailPath":"https://www.proprep.com/Images/Videos_Thumbnails/4967.jpeg","UploadDate":"2020-09-30T08:41:03.9930000","DurationForVideoObject":"PT7M28S","Description":null,"VideoComments":[],"Subtitles":[{"Start":"00:00.000 ","End":"00:02.010","Text":"Here we are back after the break."},{"Start":"00:02.010 ","End":"00:04.499","Text":"Let me erase the board."},{"Start":"00:04.499 ","End":"00:08.680","Text":"Let\u0027s just do it the electronic way."},{"Start":"00:10.580 ","End":"00:15.120","Text":"I\u0027ll indicate that this is Part 2 or continuation,"},{"Start":"00:15.120 ","End":"00:19.530","Text":"do another couple of examples of this method of elimination."},{"Start":"00:19.530 ","End":"00:22.560","Text":"To save time, I wrote it out for you,"},{"Start":"00:22.560 ","End":"00:28.725","Text":"2x plus 5 y is minus 8 and 3x plus y is 14,"},{"Start":"00:28.725 ","End":"00:31.840","Text":"and we want to use elimination."},{"Start":"00:32.150 ","End":"00:39.440","Text":"Now, we don\u0027t have the case where we have equal coefficients or opposite coefficients."},{"Start":"00:39.440 ","End":"00:42.965","Text":"If it was one minus the other or plus the other,"},{"Start":"00:42.965 ","End":"00:46.970","Text":"so we\u0027re going to have to work a little bit"},{"Start":"00:46.970 ","End":"00:52.790","Text":"more to make coefficients equal or equal with opposite sign."},{"Start":"00:52.790 ","End":"00:56.750","Text":"The thing to do is to look and see if you have one which"},{"Start":"00:56.750 ","End":"01:01.400","Text":"is a plus or minus 1 coefficient and I do the plus y."},{"Start":"01:01.400 ","End":"01:06.980","Text":"That makes it a little bit easier because then all I have to do is multiply this by 5."},{"Start":"01:06.980 ","End":"01:10.550","Text":"Well, actually better to multiply it by negative 5"},{"Start":"01:10.550 ","End":"01:14.435","Text":"and then I\u0027ll get opposite coefficients."},{"Start":"01:14.435 ","End":"01:16.550","Text":"So let\u0027s do that."},{"Start":"01:16.550 ","End":"01:22.370","Text":"I\u0027ll indicate at the side that I\u0027m multiplying the second one by minus 5."},{"Start":"01:22.370 ","End":"01:27.110","Text":"The second one is this one number 2,"},{"Start":"01:27.110 ","End":"01:33.660","Text":"number 1, and multiplying by minus 5."},{"Start":"01:33.660 ","End":"01:42.410","Text":"So I\u0027ll get minus 15x"},{"Start":"01:42.410 ","End":"01:50.405","Text":"minus 5y equals minus 70."},{"Start":"01:50.405 ","End":"01:53.455","Text":"Wrong color. Never mind."},{"Start":"01:53.455 ","End":"01:57.690","Text":"Now what I\u0027m going to do is add this one to this one."},{"Start":"01:57.690 ","End":"01:59.655","Text":"You see the 5y and the minus 5y."},{"Start":"01:59.655 ","End":"02:03.495","Text":"These 2, I\u0027m going to add them together."},{"Start":"02:03.495 ","End":"02:06.990","Text":"What I\u0027ll get is as follows,"},{"Start":"02:06.990 ","End":"02:13.620","Text":"2x and minus 15x is minus 13x;"},{"Start":"02:13.620 ","End":"02:15.950","Text":"5y and minus 5y is nothing."},{"Start":"02:15.950 ","End":"02:18.260","Text":"We don\u0027t write anything. That is the elimination."},{"Start":"02:18.260 ","End":"02:20.030","Text":"We eliminated y,"},{"Start":"02:20.030 ","End":"02:27.905","Text":"and this is equal to: minus 8 minus 70 is minus 78."},{"Start":"02:27.905 ","End":"02:34.080","Text":"So x is equal to minus 78 over minus 13."},{"Start":"02:34.080 ","End":"02:36.195","Text":"Minus over minus is plus,"},{"Start":"02:36.195 ","End":"02:39.404","Text":"and 13 goes into 78, 6 times."},{"Start":"02:39.404 ","End":"02:41.770","Text":"So x equals 6."},{"Start":"02:41.770 ","End":"02:45.220","Text":"Now we just substitute into either one."},{"Start":"02:45.220 ","End":"02:49.350","Text":"I\u0027ll substitute it into the second one,"},{"Start":"02:49.350 ","End":"02:51.700","Text":"into this one here."},{"Start":"02:51.860 ","End":"02:55.200","Text":"We\u0027ll get 3x,"},{"Start":"02:55.200 ","End":"02:58.545","Text":"which is 3 times 6,"},{"Start":"02:58.545 ","End":"03:04.655","Text":"because we found x equals 6 plus y equals 14."},{"Start":"03:04.655 ","End":"03:11.060","Text":"So y equals 14 minus this is 18."},{"Start":"03:11.060 ","End":"03:12.695","Text":"If I multiply it out,"},{"Start":"03:12.695 ","End":"03:16.660","Text":"which is minus 4,"},{"Start":"03:16.660 ","End":"03:18.785","Text":"that is our answer."},{"Start":"03:18.785 ","End":"03:25.710","Text":"We have that x equals 6 and y equals minus 4."},{"Start":"03:25.710 ","End":"03:27.260","Text":"I want to remind you."},{"Start":"03:27.260 ","End":"03:28.460","Text":"I remind you from time to time,"},{"Start":"03:28.460 ","End":"03:31.399","Text":"that you can always check your answer by substituting"},{"Start":"03:31.399 ","End":"03:35.915","Text":"these values in the original equations and seeing if it works."},{"Start":"03:35.915 ","End":"03:38.570","Text":"Just for instance, I\u0027ll just check the first one,"},{"Start":"03:38.570 ","End":"03:43.100","Text":"2x is 12, 5y is minus 20,"},{"Start":"03:43.100 ","End":"03:45.260","Text":"12 minus 20 equals minus 8."},{"Start":"03:45.260 ","End":"03:47.310","Text":"Yes, and so on."},{"Start":"03:47.310 ","End":"03:50.645","Text":"Remember you always have the option on an exam or something,"},{"Start":"03:50.645 ","End":"03:54.785","Text":"because you don\u0027t have the answers that you can check yourself by substitution."},{"Start":"03:54.785 ","End":"03:59.120","Text":"Let\u0027s do 1 more. Here it is."},{"Start":"03:59.120 ","End":"04:00.575","Text":"Once again, I wrote it out for you."},{"Start":"04:00.575 ","End":"04:02.630","Text":"5x plus 4y is 14,"},{"Start":"04:02.630 ","End":"04:05.585","Text":"8x plus 5y is 0."},{"Start":"04:05.585 ","End":"04:10.820","Text":"In this case, this is the hardest,"},{"Start":"04:10.820 ","End":"04:12.170","Text":"but it\u0027s still not hard,"},{"Start":"04:12.170 ","End":"04:16.160","Text":"is that we have to multiply both of them by something because they don\u0027t"},{"Start":"04:16.160 ","End":"04:20.180","Text":"have anything with coefficient 1 or minus 1,"},{"Start":"04:20.180 ","End":"04:26.000","Text":"and we don\u0027t have equality or minus equality,"},{"Start":"04:26.000 ","End":"04:28.160","Text":"but any other coefficients."},{"Start":"04:28.160 ","End":"04:33.575","Text":"So we\u0027re going to have to make the coefficients equal by multiplying both."},{"Start":"04:33.575 ","End":"04:36.540","Text":"In this case, for example,"},{"Start":"04:36.670 ","End":"04:40.310","Text":"we have to decide if we want to eliminate x or y."},{"Start":"04:40.310 ","End":"04:43.445","Text":"I don\u0027t see that one is more difficult than the other."},{"Start":"04:43.445 ","End":"04:46.285","Text":"Let\u0027s say I wanted to eliminate y."},{"Start":"04:46.285 ","End":"04:50.270","Text":"To eliminate y and e to make these 2 coefficients equal."},{"Start":"04:50.270 ","End":"04:54.290","Text":"So if I multiply this one by 5,"},{"Start":"04:54.290 ","End":"04:55.865","Text":"there\u0027ll be a 20 here."},{"Start":"04:55.865 ","End":"04:58.760","Text":"If I multiply this one by minus 4,"},{"Start":"04:58.760 ","End":"05:00.710","Text":"I will get a minus 20 here,"},{"Start":"05:00.710 ","End":"05:02.930","Text":"and that\u0027s very good for elimination."},{"Start":"05:02.930 ","End":"05:05.300","Text":"Basically I\u0027m taking this coefficient here,"},{"Start":"05:05.300 ","End":"05:08.345","Text":"this coefficient here, and reversing one of them."},{"Start":"05:08.345 ","End":"05:14.810","Text":"What I get are 2 equivalent equations to these, just multiplied out."},{"Start":"05:14.810 ","End":"05:17.285","Text":"Multiply everything here by 5,"},{"Start":"05:17.285 ","End":"05:23.720","Text":"25x plus 20y equals 14 times 5 is 70."},{"Start":"05:23.720 ","End":"05:26.560","Text":"Multiply everything here by minus 4."},{"Start":"05:26.560 ","End":"05:32.005","Text":"Minus 4 times 8 is minus 32x minus 20y."},{"Start":"05:32.005 ","End":"05:34.745","Text":"Anything times 0 is 0."},{"Start":"05:34.745 ","End":"05:38.350","Text":"Now, I\u0027ll add these 2."},{"Start":"05:38.350 ","End":"05:44.670","Text":"What I\u0027ll get is 25x minus 32x is minus 7x."},{"Start":"05:44.670 ","End":"05:49.620","Text":"The y is eliminated as we intended."},{"Start":"05:49.620 ","End":"05:55.905","Text":"70 plus 0 is 70 divide by minus 7,"},{"Start":"05:55.905 ","End":"06:02.225","Text":"x is 70 over minus 7 plus over minus is minus."},{"Start":"06:02.225 ","End":"06:04.595","Text":"So it\u0027s minus 10."},{"Start":"06:04.595 ","End":"06:13.610","Text":"Now I have x, I have to find y. I have to substitute in any one of these 2 equations,"},{"Start":"06:13.610 ","End":"06:16.500","Text":"I\u0027ll go with the first."},{"Start":"06:16.640 ","End":"06:18.945","Text":"The first one,"},{"Start":"06:18.945 ","End":"06:21.360","Text":"I\u0027ll get x is minus 10,"},{"Start":"06:21.360 ","End":"06:24.075","Text":"putting it into here."},{"Start":"06:24.075 ","End":"06:30.060","Text":"So 5 times minus"},{"Start":"06:30.060 ","End":"06:37.825","Text":"10 plus 4y equals 14."},{"Start":"06:37.825 ","End":"06:41.880","Text":"That means it will continue over here."},{"Start":"06:43.150 ","End":"06:53.555","Text":"So 4y is going to equal 14 plus 50 because here I\u0027ve got minus 50,"},{"Start":"06:53.555 ","End":"06:58.585","Text":"14 plus 50 is 64."},{"Start":"06:58.585 ","End":"07:02.190","Text":"Just write down, this was 14 plus 50."},{"Start":"07:02.190 ","End":"07:08.615","Text":"Then I divide by 4 and I\u0027ve got y equals 16."},{"Start":"07:08.615 ","End":"07:12.570","Text":"Now I have both x and y,"},{"Start":"07:12.570 ","End":"07:14.780","Text":"and I\u0027ll just write the solution."},{"Start":"07:14.780 ","End":"07:19.180","Text":"Solution x is equal to minus 10,"},{"Start":"07:19.180 ","End":"07:22.455","Text":"y equals 16,"},{"Start":"07:22.455 ","End":"07:28.140","Text":"and we are done with this topic of Method of Elimination."}],"ID":4958},{"Watched":false,"Name":"Exercise 1","Duration":"1m 24s","ChapterTopicVideoID":4957,"CourseChapterTopicPlaylistID":56127,"HasSubtitles":true,"ThumbnailPath":"https://www.proprep.com/Images/Videos_Thumbnails/4957.jpeg","UploadDate":"2016-02-11T16:21:15.8270000","DurationForVideoObject":"PT1M24S","Description":null,"VideoComments":[],"Subtitles":[{"Start":"00:00.000 ","End":"00:04.950","Text":"In this exercise, we have to solve the system of equations."},{"Start":"00:04.950 ","End":"00:07.425","Text":"It\u0027s 2 equations in 2 unknowns."},{"Start":"00:07.425 ","End":"00:09.495","Text":"Let\u0027s do it over here."},{"Start":"00:09.495 ","End":"00:11.745","Text":"In this case, we have,"},{"Start":"00:11.745 ","End":"00:14.730","Text":"the second equation is just y=5."},{"Start":"00:14.730 ","End":"00:16.080","Text":"It tells us what y is."},{"Start":"00:16.080 ","End":"00:20.009","Text":"This is lucky for us. It\u0027s easy."},{"Start":"00:20.009 ","End":"00:25.785","Text":"All we have to do when we have 1 of the variables is substituted in the other equation."},{"Start":"00:25.785 ","End":"00:28.545","Text":"I take this equation and put y=5,"},{"Start":"00:28.545 ","End":"00:33.180","Text":"I get 3x plus instead of y I put 5."},{"Start":"00:33.180 ","End":"00:38.820","Text":"I\u0027m using parentheses it\u0027s just for emphasis to show that I substituted equals 11."},{"Start":"00:38.820 ","End":"00:43.350","Text":"Now we have an equation in 1 unknown x."},{"Start":"00:43.350 ","End":"00:46.380","Text":"So bring the 5 over to the other side."},{"Start":"00:46.380 ","End":"00:51.630","Text":"11-5, we do it in our heads is 6."},{"Start":"00:51.630 ","End":"00:54.930","Text":"Now we divide both sides by 3."},{"Start":"00:54.930 ","End":"00:57.490","Text":"We get that x=2."},{"Start":"00:58.000 ","End":"01:03.155","Text":"Once we have x, we now need to find y."},{"Start":"01:03.155 ","End":"01:07.235","Text":"Normally, yes, but in this case, we already have it."},{"Start":"01:07.235 ","End":"01:15.550","Text":"I like to write the solution with curly braces and say {x=2, y=5}."},{"Start":"01:15.550 ","End":"01:16.980","Text":"There\u0027s 2 things here,"},{"Start":"01:16.980 ","End":"01:18.405","Text":"but it\u0027s 1 solution,"},{"Start":"01:18.405 ","End":"01:20.085","Text":"and I\u0027ll highlight it."},{"Start":"01:20.085 ","End":"01:23.620","Text":"There we go, and we\u0027re done."}],"ID":4962},{"Watched":false,"Name":"Exercise 2","Duration":"3m 1s","ChapterTopicVideoID":4958,"CourseChapterTopicPlaylistID":56127,"HasSubtitles":true,"ThumbnailPath":"https://www.proprep.com/Images/Videos_Thumbnails/4958.jpeg","UploadDate":"2016-02-11T16:21:48.2770000","DurationForVideoObject":"PT3M1S","Description":null,"VideoComments":[],"Subtitles":[{"Start":"00:00.000 ","End":"00:05.270","Text":"We have here a system of 2 equations and 2 unknowns and we want to solve it,"},{"Start":"00:05.270 ","End":"00:06.885","Text":"let\u0027s solve it over here."},{"Start":"00:06.885 ","End":"00:12.825","Text":"Here I noticed that the second equation is x in terms of y."},{"Start":"00:12.825 ","End":"00:14.820","Text":"What we do is substitution."},{"Start":"00:14.820 ","End":"00:18.570","Text":"We substitute this value of x in the other equation."},{"Start":"00:18.570 ","End":"00:21.810","Text":"Now I rewrite this one but with the substitution,"},{"Start":"00:21.810 ","End":"00:27.705","Text":"so instead of x, I put 5y plus 14."},{"Start":"00:27.705 ","End":"00:29.760","Text":"Then the rest as is,"},{"Start":"00:29.760 ","End":"00:33.790","Text":"plus 2y= minus 16."},{"Start":"00:33.790 ","End":"00:37.070","Text":"Now I have an equation in1 unknown y."},{"Start":"00:37.070 ","End":"00:38.900","Text":"Let\u0027s simplify it."},{"Start":"00:38.900 ","End":"00:40.330","Text":"Open the brackets,"},{"Start":"00:40.330 ","End":"00:44.110","Text":"minus 3 times 5y is minus 15y,"},{"Start":"00:44.110 ","End":"00:48.050","Text":"minus 3 times 14 minus 42,"},{"Start":"00:48.050 ","End":"00:49.310","Text":"that\u0027s the distributive law,"},{"Start":"00:49.310 ","End":"00:51.590","Text":"it\u0027s expansion of brackets,"},{"Start":"00:51.590 ","End":"00:57.365","Text":"then plus 2y equals minus 16."},{"Start":"00:57.365 ","End":"00:59.180","Text":"Now let\u0027s collect like terms."},{"Start":"00:59.180 ","End":"01:00.470","Text":"I want y on the left,"},{"Start":"01:00.470 ","End":"01:01.790","Text":"numbers on the right."},{"Start":"01:01.790 ","End":"01:03.680","Text":"The y\u0027s already are on the left,"},{"Start":"01:03.680 ","End":"01:07.690","Text":"minus 15y plus 2y."},{"Start":"01:07.690 ","End":"01:10.850","Text":"The numbers minus 16 as is,"},{"Start":"01:10.850 ","End":"01:12.680","Text":"but the 42 changes sides,"},{"Start":"01:12.680 ","End":"01:17.285","Text":"so it becomes plus 42. Let\u0027s see."},{"Start":"01:17.285 ","End":"01:19.250","Text":"Take y outside the brackets,"},{"Start":"01:19.250 ","End":"01:22.100","Text":"so factorize or collect however you want to call it,"},{"Start":"01:22.100 ","End":"01:26.715","Text":"we have minus 15 apples plus 2 apples,"},{"Start":"01:26.715 ","End":"01:29.164","Text":"so it\u0027s minus 13 apples."},{"Start":"01:29.164 ","End":"01:39.000","Text":"I mean, y of course and 42 minus 16 is 26."},{"Start":"01:39.170 ","End":"01:45.305","Text":"All I have to do now is divide both sides by the minus 13."},{"Start":"01:45.305 ","End":"01:50.449","Text":"I\u0027m left with y is 26 over minus 13."},{"Start":"01:50.449 ","End":"01:56.105","Text":"Some people say move the minus 13 to the other side and put it on the denominator."},{"Start":"01:56.105 ","End":"01:59.060","Text":"Either way, plus over minus is minus,"},{"Start":"01:59.060 ","End":"02:00.860","Text":"26 over 13 is 2,"},{"Start":"02:00.860 ","End":"02:03.185","Text":"so the answer is minus 2."},{"Start":"02:03.185 ","End":"02:06.620","Text":"Now I have the answer to why."},{"Start":"02:06.620 ","End":"02:12.425","Text":"What I do with this now is I substitute it over here,"},{"Start":"02:12.425 ","End":"02:19.100","Text":"where I have x in terms of y. I say x equals 5 times."},{"Start":"02:19.100 ","End":"02:24.825","Text":"Now y is minus 2 and then plus 14."},{"Start":"02:24.825 ","End":"02:26.775","Text":"Now it\u0027s just arithmetic,"},{"Start":"02:26.775 ","End":"02:29.835","Text":"5 times minus 2 is minus 10,"},{"Start":"02:29.835 ","End":"02:33.915","Text":"plus 14, and this is equal to 4."},{"Start":"02:33.915 ","End":"02:37.435","Text":"I now have the y is minus 2, x is 4."},{"Start":"02:37.435 ","End":"02:41.029","Text":"But I want to write that down as the solution."},{"Start":"02:41.029 ","End":"02:43.265","Text":"Note that solution is not just one thing,"},{"Start":"02:43.265 ","End":"02:45.110","Text":"the pair of things is a solution."},{"Start":"02:45.110 ","End":"02:47.285","Text":"What x equals and what y equals,"},{"Start":"02:47.285 ","End":"02:49.115","Text":"that is 1 solution."},{"Start":"02:49.115 ","End":"02:50.720","Text":"X equals 4,"},{"Start":"02:50.720 ","End":"02:52.235","Text":"I\u0027ll just copy from here,"},{"Start":"02:52.235 ","End":"02:56.070","Text":"and y equals minus 2 copied it from here and I like to"},{"Start":"02:56.070 ","End":"03:01.600","Text":"highlight the result and there we are."}],"ID":4963},{"Watched":false,"Name":"Exercise 3","Duration":"2m 30s","ChapterTopicVideoID":4959,"CourseChapterTopicPlaylistID":56127,"HasSubtitles":true,"ThumbnailPath":"https://www.proprep.com/Images/Videos_Thumbnails/4959.jpeg","UploadDate":"2016-02-11T16:22:13.1370000","DurationForVideoObject":"PT2M30S","Description":null,"VideoComments":[],"Subtitles":[{"Start":"00:00.000 ","End":"00:05.445","Text":"Here we have to solve this system of 2 equations and 2 unknowns; x and y."},{"Start":"00:05.445 ","End":"00:07.725","Text":"Let\u0027s do it over here."},{"Start":"00:07.725 ","End":"00:11.895","Text":"I was hoping we might have 1 variable in terms of another."},{"Start":"00:11.895 ","End":"00:13.920","Text":"We don\u0027t, but we have close to it."},{"Start":"00:13.920 ","End":"00:16.170","Text":"Look, I have just x on its own."},{"Start":"00:16.170 ","End":"00:25.210","Text":"If I rewrite this slightly as x=-4y+4,"},{"Start":"00:25.340 ","End":"00:28.395","Text":"I brought the 4y to the other side,"},{"Start":"00:28.395 ","End":"00:30.465","Text":"now I have x in terms of y,"},{"Start":"00:30.465 ","End":"00:35.520","Text":"and then I can use the substitution of this into this."},{"Start":"00:35.520 ","End":"00:40.050","Text":"I\u0027m rewriting the first now as 5 times, and instead of x,"},{"Start":"00:40.050 ","End":"00:50.385","Text":"I put (-4y+4)-2y=-2, that\u0027s just from here."},{"Start":"00:50.385 ","End":"00:54.585","Text":"1 equation in 1 unknown y, let\u0027s simplify."},{"Start":"00:54.585 ","End":"01:00.730","Text":"First of all, expand -20y+20-2y=-2."},{"Start":"01:05.510 ","End":"01:10.690","Text":"Now, let\u0027s keep the y\u0027s on the left put the numbers on the right."},{"Start":"01:10.880 ","End":"01:19.200","Text":"-20y-2y= -2-20, the 20 changes sign when it goes over."},{"Start":"01:19.200 ","End":"01:23.205","Text":"Then, here altogether I have -22y,"},{"Start":"01:23.205 ","End":"01:25.875","Text":"and here I have -22."},{"Start":"01:25.875 ","End":"01:34.790","Text":"Now, if we just divide both sides by 22 or rather by -22,"},{"Start":"01:34.790 ","End":"01:39.230","Text":"I meant that\u0027s what we divide by then -22 over is just 1,"},{"Start":"01:39.230 ","End":"01:44.195","Text":"and -22 over -22 is just 1, so y=1."},{"Start":"01:44.195 ","End":"01:48.240","Text":"That gives us 1 of the variables,"},{"Start":"01:48.240 ","End":"01:49.890","Text":"now I need to find x."},{"Start":"01:49.890 ","End":"01:54.335","Text":"What I do is, I substituted here where I have x in terms of y,"},{"Start":"01:54.335 ","End":"01:58.895","Text":"and so this gives me x=-4(1)+4,"},{"Start":"01:58.895 ","End":"02:02.520","Text":"I put it in parentheses for emphasis."},{"Start":"02:04.430 ","End":"02:10.215","Text":"That\u0027s -4+4, and that\u0027s 0."},{"Start":"02:10.215 ","End":"02:13.280","Text":"So now, I have y over here and x over here,"},{"Start":"02:13.280 ","End":"02:20.200","Text":"I just have to collect them together in one place and say x=0,"},{"Start":"02:20.200 ","End":"02:25.355","Text":"y=1, and I like to highlight it."},{"Start":"02:25.355 ","End":"02:28.950","Text":"This is the solution, we\u0027re done."}],"ID":4964},{"Watched":false,"Name":"Exercise 4","Duration":"4m 40s","ChapterTopicVideoID":4960,"CourseChapterTopicPlaylistID":56127,"HasSubtitles":true,"ThumbnailPath":"https://www.proprep.com/Images/Videos_Thumbnails/4960.jpeg","UploadDate":"2016-02-11T16:23:02.5630000","DurationForVideoObject":"PT4M40S","Description":null,"VideoComments":[],"Subtitles":[{"Start":"00:00.000 ","End":"00:05.270","Text":"Here I have a system of 2 equations and 2 unknowns."},{"Start":"00:05.270 ","End":"00:08.475","Text":"This time, we\u0027re going to use a different technique."},{"Start":"00:08.475 ","End":"00:12.240","Text":"Up to now, we use the technique called substitution,"},{"Start":"00:12.240 ","End":"00:15.510","Text":"but this time we\u0027re going to use a method called elimination."},{"Start":"00:15.510 ","End":"00:18.975","Text":"Let me eliminate the substitution and go for this."},{"Start":"00:18.975 ","End":"00:21.840","Text":"The elimination works like this."},{"Start":"00:21.840 ","End":"00:25.620","Text":"I want to multiply each of these equations,"},{"Start":"00:25.620 ","End":"00:28.950","Text":"perhaps one, perhaps both by some constant,"},{"Start":"00:28.950 ","End":"00:37.585","Text":"and I want the x\u0027s to have equal numbers but just opposite signs."},{"Start":"00:37.585 ","End":"00:39.480","Text":"I\u0027ll show you what I mean."},{"Start":"00:39.480 ","End":"00:42.230","Text":"If I multiply this one by,"},{"Start":"00:42.230 ","End":"00:46.855","Text":"let\u0027s say I take 5 times"},{"Start":"00:46.855 ","End":"00:53.745","Text":"this equation and I take minus 2 times this equation,"},{"Start":"00:53.745 ","End":"00:58.270","Text":"then here I\u0027ll get 10x and here I\u0027ll get minus 10x."},{"Start":"00:58.280 ","End":"01:03.020","Text":"I\u0027ll be able to eliminate x and that\u0027s why it\u0027s called elimination."},{"Start":"01:03.020 ","End":"01:07.340","Text":"Let\u0027s do this one. Then I\u0027ll mention now."},{"Start":"01:07.340 ","End":"01:08.540","Text":"It doesn\u0027t have to be for x."},{"Start":"01:08.540 ","End":"01:14.760","Text":"It could be elimination of y perhaps in another exercise we\u0027ll eliminate y and leave x."},{"Start":"01:14.760 ","End":"01:16.790","Text":"This time we\u0027re going to eliminate x."},{"Start":"01:16.790 ","End":"01:21.655","Text":"You\u0027re allowed to multiply both sides of an equation by the same number."},{"Start":"01:21.655 ","End":"01:29.770","Text":"If we multiply the left by 5 we get 5 times 2x is 10x."},{"Start":"01:29.770 ","End":"01:34.700","Text":"I\u0027ll just write this, 5 times 3y is 15y."},{"Start":"01:35.960 ","End":"01:41.045","Text":"We have to also multiply the other side of the equation by 5."},{"Start":"01:41.045 ","End":"01:44.240","Text":"So 5 times 5 is 25."},{"Start":"01:44.240 ","End":"01:50.130","Text":"The other equation, I\u0027m multiplying by minus 2 here,"},{"Start":"01:50.130 ","End":"01:55.385","Text":"here, and here, and here."},{"Start":"01:55.385 ","End":"02:00.520","Text":"We get minus 2 times 5x is minus 10x."},{"Start":"02:00.520 ","End":"02:02.555","Text":"This is the important thing."},{"Start":"02:02.555 ","End":"02:06.655","Text":"I wanted it so the numbers come out equal but opposite in sign,"},{"Start":"02:06.655 ","End":"02:08.480","Text":"and this I have already."},{"Start":"02:08.480 ","End":"02:11.010","Text":"Let\u0027s continue though."},{"Start":"02:13.790 ","End":"02:22.190","Text":"Minus 2 times 7y is minus 14y, minus 2 times 11 is minus 22."},{"Start":"02:22.190 ","End":"02:23.540","Text":"Now what you do with these,"},{"Start":"02:23.540 ","End":"02:26.210","Text":"it\u0027s just like an addition and arithmetic, I add the 2."},{"Start":"02:26.210 ","End":"02:28.490","Text":"I\u0027d like to put a line here and a plus."},{"Start":"02:28.490 ","End":"02:30.830","Text":"I can do this mentally."},{"Start":"02:30.830 ","End":"02:32.755","Text":"I did it this time."},{"Start":"02:32.755 ","End":"02:36.280","Text":"Let\u0027s see what we get when we add 10x minus 10x is 0."},{"Start":"02:36.280 ","End":"02:39.800","Text":"I don\u0027t even write anything, just zeros, nothing."},{"Start":"02:39.800 ","End":"02:42.300","Text":"That\u0027s what it\u0027s supposed to be."},{"Start":"02:43.950 ","End":"02:48.290","Text":"15y and minus 14y is 15 minus 14 is 1y,"},{"Start":"02:48.290 ","End":"02:51.650","Text":"just writing the 1 for emphasis though I don\u0027t need it,"},{"Start":"02:51.650 ","End":"02:56.910","Text":"and 25 and minus 22 is 3."},{"Start":"02:57.110 ","End":"03:02.770","Text":"So y=3, I\u0027ll just erase the 1."},{"Start":"03:02.770 ","End":"03:06.620","Text":"That\u0027s, found y. Now, what about x?"},{"Start":"03:06.620 ","End":"03:09.290","Text":"Well, I pick one of these 2 equations."},{"Start":"03:09.290 ","End":"03:11.135","Text":"It doesn\u0027t really matter which."},{"Start":"03:11.135 ","End":"03:15.470","Text":"I\u0027ll choose the first one because it has smaller numbers and put y in it."},{"Start":"03:15.470 ","End":"03:23.490","Text":"If I take this first equation and I put y=3 into it,"},{"Start":"03:23.490 ","End":"03:31.095","Text":"what I\u0027ll get is 2x plus 3y,"},{"Start":"03:31.095 ","End":"03:35.715","Text":"but y=3 equals 5."},{"Start":"03:35.715 ","End":"03:37.470","Text":"Now, it\u0027s like again,"},{"Start":"03:37.470 ","End":"03:39.000","Text":"1 equation and 1 unknown."},{"Start":"03:39.000 ","End":"03:41.380","Text":"So I get 2x plus 9 equals 5."},{"Start":"03:44.360 ","End":"03:49.295","Text":"Bring the 9 over to the other side,2x is 5 minus 9."},{"Start":"03:49.295 ","End":"03:50.890","Text":"Let\u0027s do it in our heads,"},{"Start":"03:50.890 ","End":"03:54.535","Text":"won\u0027t even write it, 5 minus 9 is minus 4."},{"Start":"03:54.535 ","End":"03:56.935","Text":"Now, divide by 2."},{"Start":"03:56.935 ","End":"04:02.725","Text":"We\u0027ve got x=minus 2."},{"Start":"04:02.725 ","End":"04:06.565","Text":"Now, I have y and I have x,"},{"Start":"04:06.565 ","End":"04:11.150","Text":"and I just collect them neatly in a solution and"},{"Start":"04:11.150 ","End":"04:19.650","Text":"say that x=minus 2 and y=3."},{"Start":"04:19.650 ","End":"04:23.435","Text":"Dimension at this point that there are people who like to write the solution,"},{"Start":"04:23.435 ","End":"04:28.380","Text":"something comma, something they would write, say minus 2,3."},{"Start":"04:28.380 ","End":"04:31.340","Text":"I don\u0027t particularly like using that."},{"Start":"04:31.340 ","End":"04:36.185","Text":"I prefer to say explicitly what each variable is and I\u0027ll even highlight it."},{"Start":"04:36.185 ","End":"04:39.660","Text":"There we go, and we\u0027re done."}],"ID":4965},{"Watched":false,"Name":"Exercise 5","Duration":"2m 13s","ChapterTopicVideoID":4961,"CourseChapterTopicPlaylistID":56127,"HasSubtitles":true,"ThumbnailPath":"https://www.proprep.com/Images/Videos_Thumbnails/4961.jpeg","UploadDate":"2016-02-11T16:23:24.5730000","DurationForVideoObject":"PT2M13S","Description":null,"VideoComments":[],"Subtitles":[{"Start":"00:00.000 ","End":"00:04.350","Text":"Here we have to solve this system of 2 equations in 2 unknowns,"},{"Start":"00:04.350 ","End":"00:07.335","Text":"x and y. I will solve it over here."},{"Start":"00:07.335 ","End":"00:10.860","Text":"I noticed that the left-hand sides are both the same,"},{"Start":"00:10.860 ","End":"00:12.000","Text":"y equals something,"},{"Start":"00:12.000 ","End":"00:14.385","Text":"and y equals something."},{"Start":"00:14.385 ","End":"00:17.430","Text":"It seems that the obvious thing to do is to"},{"Start":"00:17.430 ","End":"00:21.120","Text":"equate this to this because they\u0027re both equal to the same thing,"},{"Start":"00:21.120 ","End":"00:28.440","Text":"and so what I get is x minus 3 equals 2x plus 4."},{"Start":"00:28.440 ","End":"00:32.840","Text":"This is obvious but if you want me to stick to formal methods,"},{"Start":"00:32.840 ","End":"00:35.450","Text":"I could say that this is a method of substitution."},{"Start":"00:35.450 ","End":"00:37.295","Text":"Also because I could say, okay,"},{"Start":"00:37.295 ","End":"00:38.870","Text":"y equals x minus 3,"},{"Start":"00:38.870 ","End":"00:41.510","Text":"and let\u0027s substitute y in the second equation."},{"Start":"00:41.510 ","End":"00:43.720","Text":"Then when I substitute this y,"},{"Start":"00:43.720 ","End":"00:44.970","Text":"as x minus 3,"},{"Start":"00:44.970 ","End":"00:46.605","Text":"I get exactly what\u0027s written here,"},{"Start":"00:46.605 ","End":"00:48.680","Text":"so in a way this is substitution,"},{"Start":"00:48.680 ","End":"00:50.650","Text":"but it\u0027s more basic than that."},{"Start":"00:50.650 ","End":"00:55.250","Text":"Two things that are each equal to the third thing are equal among themselves."},{"Start":"00:55.250 ","End":"01:00.260","Text":"Let\u0027s solve for x and just bring the x\u0027s on the left numbers on the right,"},{"Start":"01:00.260 ","End":"01:03.590","Text":"so I have x minus 2x,"},{"Start":"01:03.590 ","End":"01:09.780","Text":"and here equals 4 plus 3."},{"Start":"01:09.780 ","End":"01:15.780","Text":"What do I have? Minus x equals 7 divide by minus 1,"},{"Start":"01:15.780 ","End":"01:17.830","Text":"or you could multiply by minus 1,"},{"Start":"01:17.830 ","End":"01:22.290","Text":"it doesn\u0027t matter, and we get x equals minus 7."},{"Start":"01:22.290 ","End":"01:24.930","Text":"That\u0027s x. What about y?"},{"Start":"01:24.930 ","End":"01:31.420","Text":"Now we just substitute that over there in this equation,"},{"Start":"01:32.270 ","End":"01:38.550","Text":"and so we get that y equals twice, now,"},{"Start":"01:38.550 ","End":"01:42.615","Text":"x is minus 7 plus 4,"},{"Start":"01:42.615 ","End":"01:47.025","Text":"which is minus 14 plus 4,"},{"Start":"01:47.025 ","End":"01:50.440","Text":"which is minus 10."},{"Start":"01:50.540 ","End":"01:56.885","Text":"All I have to do is just write the solution in an organized way,"},{"Start":"01:56.885 ","End":"02:00.215","Text":"what x equals and what y equals,"},{"Start":"02:00.215 ","End":"02:02.965","Text":"so this is minus 7 from here,"},{"Start":"02:02.965 ","End":"02:06.240","Text":"minus 10 from here."},{"Start":"02:06.240 ","End":"02:09.105","Text":"I like to highlight it."},{"Start":"02:09.105 ","End":"02:13.180","Text":"There we go. We\u0027re done."}],"ID":4966},{"Watched":false,"Name":"Exercise 6","Duration":"5m 15s","ChapterTopicVideoID":4962,"CourseChapterTopicPlaylistID":56127,"HasSubtitles":true,"ThumbnailPath":"https://www.proprep.com/Images/Videos_Thumbnails/4962.jpeg","UploadDate":"2016-02-11T16:24:18.4670000","DurationForVideoObject":"PT5M15S","Description":null,"VideoComments":[],"Subtitles":[{"Start":"00:00.000 ","End":"00:05.280","Text":"Here we have a system of 2 equations and 2 unknowns; x and y,"},{"Start":"00:05.280 ","End":"00:11.280","Text":"and they made it a little bit harder for us this time because we have x\u0027s,"},{"Start":"00:11.280 ","End":"00:13.610","Text":"and y\u0027s, and numbers on both sides."},{"Start":"00:13.610 ","End":"00:15.434","Text":"Let\u0027s just collect everything."},{"Start":"00:15.434 ","End":"00:18.465","Text":"I want x\u0027s and y\u0027s on the left,"},{"Start":"00:18.465 ","End":"00:20.292","Text":"numbers on the right,"},{"Start":"00:20.292 ","End":"00:24.705","Text":"and I\u0027ll do each 1 of them separately."},{"Start":"00:24.705 ","End":"00:26.235","Text":"Let\u0027s start with the first 1."},{"Start":"00:26.235 ","End":"00:28.915","Text":"You know what? I\u0027m going to give the equations numbers."},{"Start":"00:28.915 ","End":"00:34.275","Text":"I\u0027ll call this equation 1 and this equation 2."},{"Start":"00:34.275 ","End":"00:37.070","Text":"Let\u0027s work on equation 1 for now,"},{"Start":"00:37.070 ","End":"00:38.870","Text":"and we\u0027re collecting like terms."},{"Start":"00:38.870 ","End":"00:41.540","Text":"Let\u0027s collect the x\u0027s first on the left."},{"Start":"00:41.540 ","End":"00:44.510","Text":"On the left I already have minus x,"},{"Start":"00:44.510 ","End":"00:50.490","Text":"and I\u0027m going to bring the other 4x over so it\u0027s minus 4x."},{"Start":"00:50.490 ","End":"00:52.950","Text":"That\u0027s all the x\u0027s, now y\u0027s."},{"Start":"00:52.950 ","End":"00:56.235","Text":"I have 3y, it\u0027s a plus."},{"Start":"00:56.235 ","End":"00:58.890","Text":"I\u0027m going to bring the other 3y over,"},{"Start":"00:58.890 ","End":"01:01.335","Text":"so that\u0027s another plus 3y."},{"Start":"01:01.335 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","End":"01:44.480","Text":"Let\u0027s see, I\u0027ll do it over here this time."},{"Start":"01:44.480 ","End":"01:46.160","Text":"I want the x\u0027s first;"},{"Start":"01:46.160 ","End":"01:48.685","Text":"so it\u0027s 2x minus 4x,"},{"Start":"01:48.685 ","End":"01:52.110","Text":"but the minus 4x comes over as plus 4x."},{"Start":"01:52.110 ","End":"01:55.170","Text":"Then y, I have a minus y here."},{"Start":"01:55.170 ","End":"01:58.490","Text":"This 1 when I bring it over is minus 5y,"},{"Start":"01:58.490 ","End":"02:01.640","Text":"then here are the numbers I already had 3."},{"Start":"02:01.640 ","End":"02:04.540","Text":"I bring this 3 over and it\u0027s another plus 3,"},{"Start":"02:04.540 ","End":"02:05.750","Text":"so what do I have?"},{"Start":"02:05.750 ","End":"02:07.880","Text":"2 and 4 is 6x."},{"Start":"02:07.880 ","End":"02:10.610","Text":"Minus 1 minus 5 is minus 6y,"},{"Start":"02:10.610 ","End":"02:14.060","Text":"and this equals 6."},{"Start":"02:14.060 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I\u0027ll take the second equation and write it as x=y plus 1,"},{"Start":"03:34.340 ","End":"03:36.155","Text":"I just threw this over the other side."},{"Start":"03:36.155 ","End":"03:39.020","Text":"Now that I have what x equals substituted in"},{"Start":"03:39.020 ","End":"03:43.675","Text":"the other equation in number 1 and I get minus 5."},{"Start":"03:43.675 ","End":"03:45.920","Text":"It will look the same except instead of x,"},{"Start":"03:45.920 ","End":"03:53.720","Text":"I put y plus 1 in brackets plus 6y=0."},{"Start":"03:53.720 ","End":"03:55.925","Text":"Let\u0027s simplify this."},{"Start":"03:55.925 ","End":"03:58.650","Text":"I get minus 5y,"},{"Start":"03:59.170 ","End":"04:05.580","Text":"and then minus 5 plus 6y=0."},{"Start":"04:06.760 ","End":"04:10.780","Text":"Let me continue over here."},{"Start":"04:10.820 ","End":"04:20.068","Text":"I leave the y\u0027s on the left and have minus 5y plus 6y and numbers on the right,"},{"Start":"04:20.068 ","End":"04:22.185","Text":"so it becomes plus 5."},{"Start":"04:22.185 ","End":"04:24.915","Text":"What is minus 5y plus 6y?"},{"Start":"04:24.915 ","End":"04:27.500","Text":"Isn\u0027t it just 1y? In other words,"},{"Start":"04:27.500 ","End":"04:30.005","Text":"y is equal to 5."},{"Start":"04:30.005 ","End":"04:38.970","Text":"I have y=5 I can put that in here and x=y plus 1."},{"Start":"04:39.880 ","End":"04:42.915","Text":"X=5; parenthesis is just parenthesis,"},{"Start":"04:42.915 ","End":"04:47.365","Text":"plus 1 which is equal to 6."},{"Start":"04:47.365 ","End":"04:51.325","Text":"Now that I\u0027ve got this and this let me just collect it together,"},{"Start":"04:51.325 ","End":"04:53.120","Text":"what x is and y is here."},{"Start":"04:53.120 ","End":"04:54.263","Text":"Over here I\u0027ll do that,"},{"Start":"04:54.263 ","End":"05:00.080","Text":"it\u0027s always x equals something and y equals something."},{"Start":"05:00.080 ","End":"05:03.367","Text":"Answer is 2 inequalities,"},{"Start":"05:03.367 ","End":"05:05.105","Text":"what x is and what y is."},{"Start":"05:05.105 ","End":"05:10.720","Text":"X is 6 and y is 5."},{"Start":"05:10.720 ","End":"05:15.430","Text":"I\u0027ll just highlight that and we\u0027re done."}],"ID":4967},{"Watched":false,"Name":"Exercise 7","Duration":"5m 55s","ChapterTopicVideoID":4963,"CourseChapterTopicPlaylistID":56127,"HasSubtitles":true,"ThumbnailPath":"https://www.proprep.com/Images/Videos_Thumbnails/4963.jpeg","UploadDate":"2016-02-11T16:25:20.4000000","DurationForVideoObject":"PT5M55S","Description":null,"VideoComments":[],"Subtitles":[{"Start":"00:00.000 ","End":"00:04.965","Text":"Here I have once again a system of 2 equations in 2 unknowns, x and y."},{"Start":"00:04.965 ","End":"00:10.425","Text":"This time I see there are fractions and I want to get rid of the fractions."},{"Start":"00:10.425 ","End":"00:13.545","Text":"Just like with addition and subtraction of fractions,"},{"Start":"00:13.545 ","End":"00:18.525","Text":"we want to use the technique of common denominator. I\u0027ll work over here."},{"Start":"00:18.525 ","End":"00:20.820","Text":"I look at 8, 16,"},{"Start":"00:20.820 ","End":"00:25.785","Text":"and 4 and I see what is the common denominator."},{"Start":"00:25.785 ","End":"00:29.205","Text":"Clear that 16 will do for all of them."},{"Start":"00:29.205 ","End":"00:35.035","Text":"I\u0027m going to multiply this equation, multiply by 16."},{"Start":"00:35.035 ","End":"00:36.740","Text":"Now because of the fractions,"},{"Start":"00:36.740 ","End":"00:41.640","Text":"what I have to do is just multiply this numerator by 2."},{"Start":"00:41.640 ","End":"00:43.110","Text":"Why 2?"},{"Start":"00:43.110 ","End":"00:45.330","Text":"Because that\u0027s 16 over 8."},{"Start":"00:45.330 ","End":"00:51.620","Text":"Here, 16 into 16 goes once so I have to multiply this one by 1."},{"Start":"00:51.620 ","End":"00:54.050","Text":"The last one, 16 over 4 is 4,"},{"Start":"00:54.050 ","End":"00:56.350","Text":"I have to multiply it by 4."},{"Start":"00:56.350 ","End":"01:00.990","Text":"What I get is, I\u0027m going to write it just below this one."},{"Start":"01:00.990 ","End":"01:03.060","Text":"2x minus 3,"},{"Start":"01:03.060 ","End":"01:10.740","Text":"I\u0027ll just leave it as 2x minus 3 minus 1 times"},{"Start":"01:10.740 ","End":"01:19.390","Text":"x plus y and then equals 4 times y minus 1."},{"Start":"01:19.390 ","End":"01:24.740","Text":"This is what I get when I multiply both sides of this equation by 16 and of course,"},{"Start":"01:24.740 ","End":"01:29.190","Text":"we can do the same thing to both sides of an equation or equality."},{"Start":"01:29.500 ","End":"01:33.650","Text":"Now, I have this equation and this equation,"},{"Start":"01:33.650 ","End":"01:39.580","Text":"It\u0027s like this was equation number 1 and this was equation number 2."},{"Start":"01:39.580 ","End":"01:44.300","Text":"But now I can look at this as my new number 1 after simplification"},{"Start":"01:44.300 ","End":"01:50.400","Text":"so these are the 2 that I have to solve now."},{"Start":"01:51.910 ","End":"01:55.055","Text":"Let\u0027s simplify each one."},{"Start":"01:55.055 ","End":"01:59.275","Text":"I\u0027ll start with this one."},{"Start":"01:59.275 ","End":"02:02.010","Text":"Let\u0027s see, just multiplying brackets,"},{"Start":"02:02.010 ","End":"02:05.250","Text":"2x minus twice 3."},{"Start":"02:05.250 ","End":"02:11.240","Text":"Then here is a minus 1 so I reverse each of them so it\u0027s minus x and minus y."},{"Start":"02:11.240 ","End":"02:15.660","Text":"Here, 4 times y minus 4 times 1."},{"Start":"02:15.660 ","End":"02:18.135","Text":"Bring the x\u0027s and y\u0027s to the left."},{"Start":"02:18.135 ","End":"02:21.575","Text":"I have 2x and I have minus x."},{"Start":"02:21.575 ","End":"02:23.640","Text":"Next, collect y\u0027s."},{"Start":"02:23.640 ","End":"02:28.045","Text":"Minus y, and from here I go minus 4y."},{"Start":"02:28.045 ","End":"02:30.515","Text":"Throw the numbers onto the right."},{"Start":"02:30.515 ","End":"02:34.235","Text":"I have 6 becomes a plus 6,"},{"Start":"02:34.235 ","End":"02:41.430","Text":"and then a minus 4 and so let\u0027s see what I get."},{"Start":"02:41.430 ","End":"02:47.700","Text":"I get 2x minus x is x minus y minus"},{"Start":"02:47.700 ","End":"02:54.600","Text":"4y is minus 5y and 6 minus 4 is 2."},{"Start":"02:54.600 ","End":"02:58.000","Text":"So that simplified the first."},{"Start":"03:00.050 ","End":"03:05.135","Text":"I\u0027ll write a note to myself that this was number 1 after further simplification."},{"Start":"03:05.135 ","End":"03:08.450","Text":"Now let\u0027s go to number 2 and let\u0027s do that over here."},{"Start":"03:08.450 ","End":"03:11.675","Text":"Let\u0027s put a little arrow to show where I\u0027m coming from."},{"Start":"03:11.675 ","End":"03:13.790","Text":"No, not this one."},{"Start":"03:13.790 ","End":"03:16.135","Text":"Sorry, I meant this one."},{"Start":"03:16.135 ","End":"03:21.720","Text":"3 times 2x is 6x minus 3 times"},{"Start":"03:21.720 ","End":"03:30.190","Text":"y minus 4x minus 11 equals 0."},{"Start":"03:30.190 ","End":"03:34.145","Text":"Let\u0027s see, x\u0027s here."},{"Start":"03:34.145 ","End":"03:36.455","Text":"Let\u0027s just do it in 1 step."},{"Start":"03:36.455 ","End":"03:42.115","Text":"6x minus 4x is plus 2x and"},{"Start":"03:42.115 ","End":"03:48.200","Text":"then the minus 3y stays and the 11 goes over to the other side."},{"Start":"03:48.200 ","End":"03:51.030","Text":"This is equal to 11."},{"Start":"03:51.830 ","End":"03:57.555","Text":"This is my number 2 and I just label it here."},{"Start":"03:57.555 ","End":"04:00.630","Text":"Look, this I have and this I have."},{"Start":"04:00.630 ","End":"04:02.710","Text":"What I suggest,"},{"Start":"04:02.710 ","End":"04:05.885","Text":"I\u0027m thinking about either substitution or elimination,"},{"Start":"04:05.885 ","End":"04:11.320","Text":"and here it\u0027s easy to get x in terms of y so I\u0027m going to go for the substitution method."},{"Start":"04:11.320 ","End":"04:18.700","Text":"From here, I can get that x equals plus 5y plus 2."},{"Start":"04:18.700 ","End":"04:23.070","Text":"Now I\u0027m going to substitute that up here."},{"Start":"04:23.070 ","End":"04:29.645","Text":"I get 2 and instead of x I write what x is equal to in brackets,"},{"Start":"04:29.645 ","End":"04:32.480","Text":"5y plus 2,"},{"Start":"04:32.480 ","End":"04:36.730","Text":"and then minus 3y equals 11."},{"Start":"04:36.730 ","End":"04:41.595","Text":"Now I want to simplify some more so 2 5y is 10,"},{"Start":"04:41.595 ","End":"04:44.280","Text":"plus 2 2 is 4,"},{"Start":"04:44.280 ","End":"04:47.130","Text":"minus 3y equals 11."},{"Start":"04:47.130 ","End":"04:52.805","Text":"Because we\u0027re working here with 1 equation with 1 unknown which is y,"},{"Start":"04:52.805 ","End":"04:56.700","Text":"let\u0027s leave the y on the left so that\u0027s"},{"Start":"04:56.700 ","End":"05:01.490","Text":"10y minus 3y is 7y and throw the 4 over to the other side."},{"Start":"05:01.490 ","End":"05:02.660","Text":"We can mentally do this."},{"Start":"05:02.660 ","End":"05:04.885","Text":"11 minus 4 is 7."},{"Start":"05:04.885 ","End":"05:11.030","Text":"Now divide by 7 and we have that y is equal to 1."},{"Start":"05:11.030 ","End":"05:12.605","Text":"That\u0027s the first one."},{"Start":"05:12.605 ","End":"05:14.030","Text":"When you have a substitution,"},{"Start":"05:14.030 ","End":"05:18.560","Text":"you just plug this in where it was substituted so now x"},{"Start":"05:18.560 ","End":"05:26.155","Text":"equals 5y is 5 times 1 plus 2."},{"Start":"05:26.155 ","End":"05:32.805","Text":"That\u0027s 5 plus 2 and that is equal to 7."},{"Start":"05:32.805 ","End":"05:35.560","Text":"Now I have y is 1, x is 7."},{"Start":"05:35.560 ","End":"05:40.115","Text":"Let me just write that down at the side somewhere maybe over here is good place."},{"Start":"05:40.115 ","End":"05:49.355","Text":"I write x equals 7 and y equals 1 and that\u0027s the solution."},{"Start":"05:49.355 ","End":"05:54.360","Text":"You know me, I like to highlight the solution so there we are."}],"ID":4968},{"Watched":false,"Name":"Exercise 8","Duration":"6m 47s","ChapterTopicVideoID":4964,"CourseChapterTopicPlaylistID":56127,"HasSubtitles":true,"ThumbnailPath":"https://www.proprep.com/Images/Videos_Thumbnails/4964.jpeg","UploadDate":"2016-02-11T16:26:33.2030000","DurationForVideoObject":"PT6M47S","Description":null,"VideoComments":[],"Subtitles":[{"Start":"00:00.000 ","End":"00:03.120","Text":"Once again, we have a system of equations,"},{"Start":"00:03.120 ","End":"00:06.389","Text":"2 equations and 2 unknowns, x and y."},{"Start":"00:06.389 ","End":"00:09.180","Text":"Each time they make it a little bit harder,"},{"Start":"00:09.180 ","End":"00:12.120","Text":"this time both of them have fractions in."},{"Start":"00:12.120 ","End":"00:14.940","Text":"Let\u0027s see how we get rid of the fractions."},{"Start":"00:14.940 ","End":"00:17.460","Text":"What\u0027s the common denominator going to be?"},{"Start":"00:17.460 ","End":"00:19.410","Text":"In the case of the first equation,"},{"Start":"00:19.410 ","End":"00:21.765","Text":"I have to look at 4, 5, and 10,"},{"Start":"00:21.765 ","End":"00:23.220","Text":"and after thinking a little bit,"},{"Start":"00:23.220 ","End":"00:27.705","Text":"I see that 20 is the best I can do for a common denominator."},{"Start":"00:27.705 ","End":"00:30.420","Text":"I\u0027m going to multiply this one by 20,"},{"Start":"00:30.420 ","End":"00:32.085","Text":"and the second one,"},{"Start":"00:32.085 ","End":"00:33.945","Text":"4 will do for both,"},{"Start":"00:33.945 ","End":"00:37.320","Text":"so I\u0027m going to multiply the second one by 4."},{"Start":"00:38.150 ","End":"00:40.530","Text":"For this one,"},{"Start":"00:40.530 ","End":"00:43.110","Text":"I multiply by 20."},{"Start":"00:43.110 ","End":"00:44.940","Text":"Let\u0027s see what I need to do,"},{"Start":"00:44.940 ","End":"00:46.530","Text":"20/4 is 5,"},{"Start":"00:46.530 ","End":"00:50.435","Text":"so I take the numerator and multiply that by 5."},{"Start":"00:50.435 ","End":"00:53.535","Text":"Here, 20/5 is 4,"},{"Start":"00:53.535 ","End":"00:57.425","Text":"so I need to take this numerator and multiply it by 4,"},{"Start":"00:57.425 ","End":"00:59.795","Text":"and 20/10 is 2."},{"Start":"00:59.795 ","End":"01:02.885","Text":"Similarly here, 4/4 is 1,"},{"Start":"01:02.885 ","End":"01:08.430","Text":"and 4/2 is 2."},{"Start":"01:08.430 ","End":"01:11.330","Text":"The way this works is we just take each time"},{"Start":"01:11.330 ","End":"01:15.740","Text":"the thing that I\u0027ve marked in orange here and times the numerator,"},{"Start":"01:15.740 ","End":"01:20.880","Text":"so it\u0027s 5 times 3x minus 1."},{"Start":"01:20.880 ","End":"01:22.965","Text":"There is a minus here,"},{"Start":"01:22.965 ","End":"01:28.950","Text":"and then 4 times still the 2,"},{"Start":"01:28.950 ","End":"01:30.570","Text":"the 2 has to stay,"},{"Start":"01:30.570 ","End":"01:33.880","Text":"and then the x minus y."},{"Start":"01:34.430 ","End":"01:42.190","Text":"Here 2 times 3 times x plus 3."},{"Start":"01:43.310 ","End":"01:46.440","Text":"I can either simplify this."},{"Start":"01:46.440 ","End":"01:52.175","Text":"I\u0027ll continue with this just to be in parallel, in sync."},{"Start":"01:52.175 ","End":"01:55.790","Text":"This equation becomes, let\u0027s see,"},{"Start":"01:55.790 ","End":"02:01.405","Text":"1 times x plus 1 is just x plus 1."},{"Start":"02:01.405 ","End":"02:06.185","Text":"I\u0027ll put it as 1 times x plus 1 so you can see where I\u0027m coming from,"},{"Start":"02:06.185 ","End":"02:12.405","Text":"and then minus 2 times y."},{"Start":"02:12.405 ","End":"02:17.050","Text":"Here I forgot to say that we have to multiply the right-hand side by 4,"},{"Start":"02:17.050 ","End":"02:18.400","Text":"also there\u0027s no fractions,"},{"Start":"02:18.400 ","End":"02:20.450","Text":"it\u0027s just the full 4."},{"Start":"02:20.450 ","End":"02:25.065","Text":"Here this is equal is 4 times 1 is 4."},{"Start":"02:25.065 ","End":"02:28.750","Text":"Now, let\u0027s see."},{"Start":"02:28.880 ","End":"02:31.140","Text":"I\u0027m going to work this."},{"Start":"02:31.140 ","End":"02:34.020","Text":"I\u0027ll tell you what,"},{"Start":"02:34.020 ","End":"02:37.655","Text":"I\u0027ll simplify this one over here,"},{"Start":"02:37.655 ","End":"02:40.325","Text":"and then I\u0027ll simplify this one over there."},{"Start":"02:40.325 ","End":"02:42.695","Text":"Let\u0027s start with this one,"},{"Start":"02:42.695 ","End":"02:47.405","Text":"1 times x plus 1 is x plus 1,"},{"Start":"02:47.405 ","End":"02:51.625","Text":"then minus 2y equals 4."},{"Start":"02:51.625 ","End":"02:55.280","Text":"If I 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minus 8 times x minus y,"},{"Start":"03:33.390 ","End":"03:35.100","Text":"so it\u0027s minus 8x,"},{"Start":"03:35.100 ","End":"03:39.435","Text":"but minus 8 minus y is plus 8y."},{"Start":"03:39.435 ","End":"03:41.145","Text":"Watch out for that."},{"Start":"03:41.145 ","End":"03:50.355","Text":"Then we have 6 times x is 6x,and 6 times 3 is 18."},{"Start":"03:50.355 ","End":"03:52.320","Text":"Let\u0027s see now. X is on the left,"},{"Start":"03:52.320 ","End":"03:58.365","Text":"so I have 15x minus 8x and minus 6x."},{"Start":"03:58.365 ","End":"03:59.670","Text":"That\u0027s taking care of the x."},{"Start":"03:59.670 ","End":"04:04.875","Text":"Now the y\u0027s, all I have is one place, 8y."},{"Start":"04:04.875 ","End":"04:06.960","Text":"Now numbers on the right,"},{"Start":"04:06.960 ","End":"04:08.955","Text":"I already had an 18 here."},{"Start":"04:08.955 ","End":"04:12.045","Text":"The 5 comes over as plus 5."},{"Start":"04:12.045 ","End":"04:16.215","Text":"Let\u0027s see, 15 minus 8 minus 6,"},{"Start":"04:16.215 ","End":"04:18.990","Text":"15 minus 14 is 1, so it\u0027s 1x."},{"Start":"04:18.990 ","End":"04:25.365","Text":"1x plus 8y equals,"},{"Start":"04:25.365 ","End":"04:28.320","Text":"15 and 5 is 23."},{"Start":"04:28.320 ","End":"04:35.500","Text":"Altogether, what\u0027s happened is this was my equation number 1,"},{"Start":"04:35.500 ","End":"04:37.960","Text":"and I have to do a lot of simplification, let\u0027s see."},{"Start":"04:37.960 ","End":"04:42.620","Text":"We ended up here and this is going to be my equation 1."},{"Start":"04:43.060 ","End":"04:46.895","Text":"This one through here and here and here,"},{"Start":"04:46.895 ","End":"04:48.620","Text":"this was my number 2,"},{"Start":"04:48.620 ","End":"04:52.400","Text":"and this is here going to be my equation number 2."},{"Start":"04:52.400 ","End":"04:55.610","Text":"I could put them together nicely with curly braces,"},{"Start":"04:55.610 ","End":"04:56.945","Text":"but I won\u0027t bother."},{"Start":"04:56.945 ","End":"05:02.825","Text":"What we\u0027ll do is take a look and see if we want to use elimination or substitution."},{"Start":"05:02.825 ","End":"05:04.685","Text":"Both would be good."},{"Start":"05:04.685 ","End":"05:07.820","Text":"But I think we can easily get"},{"Start":"05:07.820 ","End":"05:11.830","Text":"x in terms of y from this or from this, as a matter of fact."},{"Start":"05:11.830 ","End":"05:13.630","Text":"I\u0027ll tell you what, I\u0027ll go with this."},{"Start":"05:13.630 ","End":"05:15.115","Text":"I\u0027ll go with substitution,"},{"Start":"05:15.115 ","End":"05:24.045","Text":"and I\u0027ll write this one as x equals plus 2y plus 3,"},{"Start":"05:24.045 ","End":"05:27.125","Text":"and substitute that in here."},{"Start":"05:27.125 ","End":"05:29.290","Text":"Let\u0027s just scroll down a bit,"},{"Start":"05:29.290 ","End":"05:31.640","Text":"get some more room."},{"Start":"05:33.200 ","End":"05:36.735","Text":"Putting x is 2y plus 3 here,"},{"Start":"05:36.735 ","End":"05:41.670","Text":"I get 2y plus 3."},{"Start":"05:41.670 ","End":"05:44.550","Text":"I just put it in brackets for emphasis,"},{"Start":"05:44.550 ","End":"05:51.685","Text":"plus 8y equals 23. Then let\u0027s see."},{"Start":"05:51.685 ","End":"05:53.650","Text":"We have an equation and just y,"},{"Start":"05:53.650 ","End":"05:57.430","Text":"2y and 8y is 10y,"},{"Start":"05:57.430 ","End":"06:01.055","Text":"and the 3 goes over to the other side is minus 3,"},{"Start":"06:01.055 ","End":"06:03.810","Text":"23 minus 3 is 20."},{"Start":"06:03.810 ","End":"06:05.865","Text":"Now dividing by 10,"},{"Start":"06:05.865 ","End":"06:10.020","Text":"we see that y equals 2."},{"Start":"06:10.020 ","End":"06:11.800","Text":"If y equals 2,"},{"Start":"06:11.800 ","End":"06:16.160","Text":"I can now substitute that over here because I\u0027ve got x in terms of y."},{"Start":"06:16.160 ","End":"06:17.720","Text":"So x equals twice."},{"Start":"06:17.720 ","End":"06:19.655","Text":"Now y is 2,"},{"Start":"06:19.655 ","End":"06:23.755","Text":"so I\u0027ll put that 2 here, plus 3."},{"Start":"06:23.755 ","End":"06:25.770","Text":"This equals 2 times 2 is 4,"},{"Start":"06:25.770 ","End":"06:27.975","Text":"plus 3 is 7."},{"Start":"06:27.975 ","End":"06:30.270","Text":"Now I have what everything is."},{"Start":"06:30.270 ","End":"06:33.270","Text":"I\u0027ll just write that somewhere."},{"Start":"06:33.270 ","End":"06:34.715","Text":"Here\u0027s a nice spot."},{"Start":"06:34.715 ","End":"06:41.850","Text":"I write that as x equals 7 and y equals 2,"},{"Start":"06:41.850 ","End":"06:46.980","Text":"and I\u0027ll highlight that and we are done."}],"ID":4969},{"Watched":false,"Name":"Exercise 9","Duration":"1m 45s","ChapterTopicVideoID":4965,"CourseChapterTopicPlaylistID":56127,"HasSubtitles":true,"ThumbnailPath":"https://www.proprep.com/Images/Videos_Thumbnails/4965.jpeg","UploadDate":"2016-02-11T16:26:51.1230000","DurationForVideoObject":"PT1M45S","Description":null,"VideoComments":[],"Subtitles":[{"Start":"00:00.000 ","End":"00:03.060","Text":"Here we have yet another system of equations,"},{"Start":"00:03.060 ","End":"00:05.880","Text":"2 equations and 2 unknowns, x, y."},{"Start":"00:05.880 ","End":"00:08.175","Text":"Let\u0027s see if we can solve it."},{"Start":"00:08.175 ","End":"00:11.715","Text":"We have to decide to go for substitution or elimination."},{"Start":"00:11.715 ","End":"00:14.610","Text":"But look, we have a plus 3 and minus 3,"},{"Start":"00:14.610 ","End":"00:16.980","Text":"so it begs for the elimination methods."},{"Start":"00:16.980 ","End":"00:20.084","Text":"Let\u0027s add these 2 equations together."},{"Start":"00:20.084 ","End":"00:23.840","Text":"If 2 things are equal and another 2 things are equal,"},{"Start":"00:23.840 ","End":"00:25.955","Text":"we can add the equals to the equals."},{"Start":"00:25.955 ","End":"00:29.690","Text":"So x plus x is 2x,"},{"Start":"00:29.690 ","End":"00:33.930","Text":"3y and minus 3y is 0."},{"Start":"00:33.930 ","End":"00:35.175","Text":"We don\u0027t write anything,"},{"Start":"00:35.175 ","End":"00:38.595","Text":"and 5 plus 3=8,"},{"Start":"00:38.595 ","End":"00:44.260","Text":"2x=8, just divide by 2, x=4."},{"Start":"00:44.510 ","End":"00:48.305","Text":"We\u0027ve solved the x now we need to get y."},{"Start":"00:48.305 ","End":"00:52.670","Text":"We just have to substitute in either one of these."},{"Start":"00:52.670 ","End":"00:55.760","Text":"Let\u0027s say the first because it\u0027s first."},{"Start":"00:55.760 ","End":"00:57.935","Text":"I\u0027ll put that into here."},{"Start":"00:57.935 ","End":"01:00.965","Text":"Then what I get is x is 4,"},{"Start":"01:00.965 ","End":"01:08.780","Text":"so 4 plus 3y=5."},{"Start":"01:08.780 ","End":"01:15.290","Text":"Now subtract 4 from both sides or bring the numbers over to the right."},{"Start":"01:15.290 ","End":"01:20.335","Text":"Eventually I get 3y=5 minus 4, which is 1."},{"Start":"01:20.335 ","End":"01:30.485","Text":"Now I divide by 3 both sides or bring the 3 to the denominator, y=1/3."},{"Start":"01:30.485 ","End":"01:33.530","Text":"Just to write it nicely,"},{"Start":"01:33.530 ","End":"01:41.225","Text":"we summarize and say the solution is x=4, y=1/3."},{"Start":"01:41.225 ","End":"01:45.090","Text":"That\u0027s the answer. We are done."}],"ID":4970},{"Watched":false,"Name":"Exercise 10","Duration":"2m 21s","ChapterTopicVideoID":4966,"CourseChapterTopicPlaylistID":56127,"HasSubtitles":true,"ThumbnailPath":"https://www.proprep.com/Images/Videos_Thumbnails/4966.jpeg","UploadDate":"2016-02-11T16:27:14.6600000","DurationForVideoObject":"PT2M21S","Description":null,"VideoComments":[],"Subtitles":[{"Start":"00:00.000 ","End":"00:05.850","Text":"Here we\u0027re given a system of two equations and two unknowns which we have to solve."},{"Start":"00:05.850 ","End":"00:07.545","Text":"I\u0027ll solve it over here."},{"Start":"00:07.545 ","End":"00:11.100","Text":"I look at this, and I\u0027m thinking substitution or elimination."},{"Start":"00:11.100 ","End":"00:12.510","Text":"I notice that there\u0027s a 5,"},{"Start":"00:12.510 ","End":"00:14.400","Text":"and a 5 here."},{"Start":"00:14.400 ","End":"00:17.370","Text":"If I just multiply one of them,"},{"Start":"00:17.370 ","End":"00:20.710","Text":"let\u0027s 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minuses."},{"Start":"01:05.690 ","End":"01:08.240","Text":"Just divide both sides by -1,"},{"Start":"01:08.240 ","End":"01:10.985","Text":"and you get that y=9."},{"Start":"01:10.985 ","End":"01:14.270","Text":"Now I just have to find what x is."},{"Start":"01:14.270 ","End":"01:17.195","Text":"I\u0027ll substitute it, let\u0027s say,"},{"Start":"01:17.195 ","End":"01:18.830","Text":"in this one,"},{"Start":"01:18.830 ","End":"01:22.579","Text":"I\u0027ll put the y=9 here."},{"Start":"01:22.579 ","End":"01:32.815","Text":"What I get is 5x+2(9)=14."},{"Start":"01:32.815 ","End":"01:41.325","Text":"5x equals, let\u0027s bring the numbers to the other side, 14 minus,"},{"Start":"01:41.325 ","End":"01:46.320","Text":"twice 9 is 18,"},{"Start":"01:46.320 ","End":"01:48.810","Text":"so it\u0027s 14 minus 18,"},{"Start":"01:48.810 ","End":"01:52.210","Text":"which is minus 4."},{"Start":"01:52.210 ","End":"02:01.080","Text":"Now if I divide both sides by 5, I get x=-4/5."},{"Start":"02:01.610 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on."},{"Start":"05:01.270 ","End":"05:04.075","Text":"This could be each time my x,"},{"Start":"05:04.075 ","End":"05:07.760","Text":"each time this will be the corresponding y."},{"Start":"05:08.040 ","End":"05:11.050","Text":"Obviously, this goes on forever,"},{"Start":"05:11.050 ","End":"05:12.790","Text":"an infinite number of solutions."},{"Start":"05:12.790 ","End":"05:17.395","Text":"But notice though that even though there\u0027s an infinite number of solutions,"},{"Start":"05:17.395 ","End":"05:19.450","Text":"it doesn\u0027t mean that every x,"},{"Start":"05:19.450 ","End":"05:21.684","Text":"y I take will be a solution."},{"Start":"05:21.684 ","End":"05:25.771","Text":"For example, now I\u0027ll use a different color to say it\u0027s a bad example,"},{"Start":"05:25.771 ","End":"05:33.575","Text":"suppose I took x=4 and y=3."},{"Start":"05:33.575 ","End":"05:35.410","Text":"Is that a solution?"},{"Start":"05:35.410 ","End":"05:41.275","Text":"No, because x plus y=7 which is 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so"},{"Start":"00:57.045 ","End":"01:04.550","Text":"minus 4x and minus 4 times this is minus 8y equals minus 4."},{"Start":"01:04.550 ","End":"01:09.530","Text":"Now we want to look at these 2 and add them."},{"Start":"01:09.530 ","End":"01:13.670","Text":"I\u0027m going to do an addition of these 2 so what I get is"},{"Start":"01:13.670 ","End":"01:18.570","Text":"4x and minus 4x cancel each other out, nothing."},{"Start":"01:18.570 ","End":"01:21.150","Text":"8y minus 8y,"},{"Start":"01:21.150 ","End":"01:23.490","Text":"they also cancel each other out."},{"Start":"01:23.490 ","End":"01:26.285","Text":"I can\u0027t just not write anything, I have to write 0."},{"Start":"01:26.285 ","End":"01:31.355","Text":"I mean this plus this is 0, and then 5 and minus 4 is 1."},{"Start":"01:31.355 ","End":"01:36.650","Text":"What I get is 0=1. How can that be?"},{"Start":"01:36.650 ","End":"01:40.280","Text":"The answer is it cannot be and the fact that we reach"},{"Start":"01:40.280 ","End":"01:44.180","Text":"something impossible means that there\u0027s no solution to the equation."},{"Start":"01:44.180 ","End":"01:46.460","Text":"If there was a solution to the equation,"},{"Start":"01:46.460 ","End":"01:49.595","Text":"it wouldn\u0027t imply that 0 equals 1 and that\u0027s never going to be,"},{"Start":"01:49.595 ","End":"01:54.725","Text":"so we just write that there is no solution or you can write a full sentence."},{"Start":"01:54.725 ","End":"02:00.960","Text":"The system of equations above has no solution."},{"Start":"02:01.240 ","End":"02:05.430","Text":"There\u0027s nothing more to be done. Well, that is it."}],"ID":4973},{"Watched":false,"Name":"Exercise 2","Duration":"5m 11s","ChapterTopicVideoID":4973,"CourseChapterTopicPlaylistID":56128,"HasSubtitles":true,"ThumbnailPath":"https://www.proprep.com/Images/Videos_Thumbnails/4973.jpeg","UploadDate":"2016-02-11T16:40:54.3730000","DurationForVideoObject":"PT5M11S","Description":null,"VideoComments":[],"Subtitles":[{"Start":"00:00.000 ","End":"00:03.705","Text":"Here we have to solve the system of equations,"},{"Start":"00:03.705 ","End":"00:08.205","Text":"this 1, 2 equations in 2 unknowns. Solve it over here."},{"Start":"00:08.205 ","End":"00:10.020","Text":"I\u0027d like to label them,"},{"Start":"00:10.020 ","End":"00:14.370","Text":"equation number 1 and equation Number 2."},{"Start":"00:14.370 ","End":"00:17.760","Text":"It looked like they really need some simplification,"},{"Start":"00:17.760 ","End":"00:18.915","Text":"so let\u0027s do that."},{"Start":"00:18.915 ","End":"00:23.430","Text":"Let me work with equation Number 1 here,"},{"Start":"00:23.430 ","End":"00:27.135","Text":"and maybe over here I\u0027ll work with equation Number 2."},{"Start":"00:27.135 ","End":"00:30.890","Text":"So let\u0027s see, expanding the brackets for Number 1,"},{"Start":"00:30.890 ","End":"00:36.090","Text":"I get 2x minus 2y plus 4y=1 plus x."},{"Start":"00:40.160 ","End":"00:45.090","Text":"Now the usual, we bring the x\u0027s to the left and the y, let\u0027s see, why do we have x?"},{"Start":"00:45.090 ","End":"00:51.260","Text":"We have 2x here and we have an x here which is 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Now,"},{"Start":"01:47.555 ","End":"01:52.760","Text":"what I suggest doing is dividing by minus 25,"},{"Start":"01:52.760 ","End":"01:55.250","Text":"which is the coefficient of t,"},{"Start":"01:55.250 ","End":"02:04.115","Text":"and then we\u0027ll get just t equals 40 minus C divided by minus 25."},{"Start":"02:04.115 ","End":"02:07.160","Text":"I\u0027d like to tidy this up a little bit."},{"Start":"02:07.160 ","End":"02:08.730","Text":"I want to get rid of this minus,"},{"Start":"02:08.730 ","End":"02:10.020","Text":"there\u0027s too many minuses,"},{"Start":"02:10.020 ","End":"02:13.460","Text":"so I can on the bottom put just 25 and"},{"Start":"02:13.460 ","End":"02:17.465","Text":"now I have to multiply the numerator by minus, or minus 1."},{"Start":"02:17.465 ","End":"02:20.795","Text":"One way to do this with a difference is just to reverse the order,"},{"Start":"02:20.795 ","End":"02:22.850","Text":"instead of writing minus 40 plus C,"},{"Start":"02:22.850 ","End":"02:25.880","Text":"I can write C minus 40,"},{"Start":"02:25.880 ","End":"02:28.925","Text":"so I would like to leave it this way."},{"Start":"02:28.925 ","End":"02:31.460","Text":"I\u0027ll just highlight the answers of part a,"},{"Start":"02:31.460 ","End":"02:33.290","Text":"C in terms of t is this,"},{"Start":"02:33.290 ","End":"02:37.865","Text":"and for part b, t in terms of C is this."},{"Start":"02:37.865 ","End":"02:42.769","Text":"We\u0027re done, but I\u0027ll just like to throw in a bit of intuition why this makes sense."},{"Start":"02:42.769 ","End":"02:45.470","Text":"If you know how much the total cost was"},{"Start":"02:45.470 ","End":"02:48.365","Text":"and you wanted to figure out how many hours you work, you say, Okay,"},{"Start":"02:48.365 ","End":"02:51.050","Text":"let\u0027s subtract the $40 flat rate for"},{"Start":"02:51.050 ","End":"02:56.300","Text":"the service charge and everything else is the stuff he did in an hourly rate,"},{"Start":"02:56.300 ","End":"02:58.430","Text":"and since there were $25 per hour,"},{"Start":"02:58.430 ","End":"03:01.100","Text":"you divide by 25 to get the number of hours,"},{"Start":"03:01.100 ","End":"03:05.250","Text":"so it makes sense. That\u0027s it."}],"ID":8218},{"Watched":false,"Name":"Exercise 2","Duration":"3m 22s","ChapterTopicVideoID":8103,"CourseChapterTopicPlaylistID":56129,"HasSubtitles":true,"ThumbnailPath":"https://www.proprep.com/Images/Videos_Thumbnails/8103.jpeg","UploadDate":"2019-05-29T08:56:25.5830000","DurationForVideoObject":"PT3M22S","Description":null,"VideoComments":[],"Subtitles":[{"Start":"00:00.000 ","End":"00:06.488","Text":"We have here a word problem where social group bought 200 tickets for a concert."},{"Start":"00:06.488 ","End":"00:08.759","Text":"There\u0027s 2 kinds of tickets."},{"Start":"00:08.759 ","End":"00:11.160","Text":"The orchestra tickets which are more expensive,"},{"Start":"00:11.160 ","End":"00:15.975","Text":"that $12, and the balcony tickets, just $8."},{"Start":"00:15.975 ","End":"00:19.650","Text":"Now, we know that the total amount was"},{"Start":"00:19.650 ","End":"00:25.155","Text":"$2,080 and we\u0027ve got to figure out how many of each type,"},{"Start":"00:25.155 ","End":"00:29.640","Text":"ie, how many orchestra tickets and how many balcony tickets."},{"Start":"00:29.640 ","End":"00:32.675","Text":"Now, we don\u0027t need 2 variables, we could say,"},{"Start":"00:32.675 ","End":"00:38.163","Text":"let X be the number of balcony tickets and Y be the number of orchestral tickets."},{"Start":"00:38.163 ","End":"00:42.650","Text":"But we don\u0027t need that because we know that together there were 200,"},{"Start":"00:42.650 ","End":"00:45.980","Text":"so as soon as we know 1 kind we can figure the other."},{"Start":"00:45.980 ","End":"00:49.070","Text":"I\u0027m not sure which to give the letter X to,"},{"Start":"00:49.070 ","End":"00:54.146","Text":"so let\u0027s go with the expensive ones and call that X and say X="},{"Start":"00:54.146 ","End":"01:00.815","Text":"the number of orchestra tickets."},{"Start":"01:00.815 ","End":"01:03.905","Text":"Like I said, we know how many balcony tickets to wear"},{"Start":"01:03.905 ","End":"01:08.260","Text":"because I just have to subtract from 200 that\u0027s the remainder."},{"Start":"01:08.260 ","End":"01:15.885","Text":"I did copy paste change that to balcony tickets."},{"Start":"01:15.885 ","End":"01:18.065","Text":"Now we\u0027ve got to figure out the cost."},{"Start":"01:18.065 ","End":"01:23.105","Text":"These are the $12 tickets and these are the $8 tickets."},{"Start":"01:23.105 ","End":"01:31.890","Text":"I can figure out that there were $12X spent on the orchestra tickets."},{"Start":"01:31.890 ","End":"01:35.835","Text":"For the balcony I\u0027ve got this number at $8 each,"},{"Start":"01:35.835 ","End":"01:41.465","Text":"so it\u0027s 8 times 200 minus X was spent on balcony tickets."},{"Start":"01:41.465 ","End":"01:47.750","Text":"The equation comes from saying that I know the total cost was 2,080."},{"Start":"01:47.750 ","End":"01:51.545","Text":"This is our equation I want to just solve it."},{"Start":"01:51.545 ","End":"01:54.685","Text":"Let\u0027s start by opening the brackets."},{"Start":"01:54.685 ","End":"01:56.685","Text":"We\u0027ve got 12X,"},{"Start":"01:56.685 ","End":"02:05.190","Text":"8 times 200 is 1,600 minus 8X=2,080."},{"Start":"02:05.190 ","End":"02:09.795","Text":"What I\u0027m going do is leave the Xs on the left and the numbers on the right."},{"Start":"02:09.795 ","End":"02:13.180","Text":"X is 12X minus 8X,"},{"Start":"02:13.180 ","End":"02:14.645","Text":"that\u0027s already on the left."},{"Start":"02:14.645 ","End":"02:23.000","Text":"On the right I have 2,080 and that bring the 1,600 over it becomes minus 1,600."},{"Start":"02:23.000 ","End":"02:25.490","Text":"Now collecting like terms 12 minus 8,"},{"Start":"02:25.490 ","End":"02:33.850","Text":"so we have 4X is equal to this minus this is 480."},{"Start":"02:33.850 ","End":"02:38.715","Text":"X equals 120. Now,"},{"Start":"02:38.715 ","End":"02:44.460","Text":"you can\u0027t leave your answer as X=120 you have to interpret it."},{"Start":"02:44.460 ","End":"02:48.480","Text":"What we would say that there would be"},{"Start":"02:48.480 ","End":"02:54.275","Text":"120 orchestra tickets and just did a quick copy paste there,"},{"Start":"02:54.275 ","End":"02:57.320","Text":"and number of balcony tickets is 200 minus X so I do"},{"Start":"02:57.320 ","End":"03:00.560","Text":"a little calculation on the side though I can do it in our heads."},{"Start":"03:00.560 ","End":"03:05.660","Text":"200 minus 120 is 80."},{"Start":"03:05.660 ","End":"03:10.700","Text":"I\u0027d say that there were 80 balcony tickets."},{"Start":"03:10.700 ","End":"03:13.190","Text":"That should do it."},{"Start":"03:13.190 ","End":"03:16.310","Text":"You might want to highlight the important bits."},{"Start":"03:16.310 ","End":"03:22.770","Text":"There were 120 orchestra tickets and 80 balcony tickets. That\u0027s it."}],"ID":8219},{"Watched":false,"Name":"Exercise 3","Duration":"2m 58s","ChapterTopicVideoID":8104,"CourseChapterTopicPlaylistID":56129,"HasSubtitles":true,"ThumbnailPath":"https://www.proprep.com/Images/Videos_Thumbnails/8104.jpeg","UploadDate":"2019-05-29T08:56:43.5570000","DurationForVideoObject":"PT2M58S","Description":null,"VideoComments":[],"Subtitles":[{"Start":"00:00.000 ","End":"00:04.830","Text":"This exercise is one of those word problems involving distance,"},{"Start":"00:04.830 ","End":"00:06.540","Text":"speed, and time."},{"Start":"00:06.540 ","End":"00:10.890","Text":"The cyclist cycles at a certain speed for 4 hours."},{"Start":"00:10.890 ","End":"00:17.393","Text":"His name is Joe, and he realizes that if he had driven 5 miles an hour faster,"},{"Start":"00:17.393 ","End":"00:21.945","Text":"he would have covered it in 3 hours instead of 4 hours and saved himself an hour."},{"Start":"00:21.945 ","End":"00:26.670","Text":"The question is, what distance does he travel during the 4-hour trip?"},{"Start":"00:26.670 ","End":"00:30.645","Text":"Meaning in reality, not the hypothetical."},{"Start":"00:30.645 ","End":"00:35.480","Text":"Will you set up an equation and what is the variable?"},{"Start":"00:35.480 ","End":"00:36.965","Text":"What don\u0027t we know?"},{"Start":"00:36.965 ","End":"00:39.110","Text":"Well, I think if you read it,"},{"Start":"00:39.110 ","End":"00:42.440","Text":"it\u0027s fairly clear that the key lines here it says,"},{"Start":"00:42.440 ","End":"00:44.135","Text":"at a certain speed,"},{"Start":"00:44.135 ","End":"00:46.220","Text":"and we don\u0027t know that certain speed."},{"Start":"00:46.220 ","End":"00:48.050","Text":"Why don\u0027t we give it a name?"},{"Start":"00:48.050 ","End":"00:49.700","Text":"I don\u0027t like to use s for speed,"},{"Start":"00:49.700 ","End":"00:51.620","Text":"they like to use v for velocity."},{"Start":"00:51.620 ","End":"00:54.965","Text":"I\u0027ll call that certain speed, v,"},{"Start":"00:54.965 ","End":"00:59.360","Text":"and I want to remind you of the most basic formula in"},{"Start":"00:59.360 ","End":"01:06.283","Text":"these problems with distance and speed or velocity, times time."},{"Start":"01:06.283 ","End":"01:08.405","Text":"You have to make sure the units are right."},{"Start":"01:08.405 ","End":"01:10.880","Text":"Like if you\u0027re using miles and hours,"},{"Start":"01:10.880 ","End":"01:12.680","Text":"you need miles per hour and so on."},{"Start":"01:12.680 ","End":"01:15.096","Text":"Let\u0027s do 2 scenarios."},{"Start":"01:15.096 ","End":"01:16.910","Text":"One is the actual scenario,"},{"Start":"01:16.910 ","End":"01:19.145","Text":"and the other is the hypothetical scenario,"},{"Start":"01:19.145 ","End":"01:21.065","Text":"but the distance is the same."},{"Start":"01:21.065 ","End":"01:25.430","Text":"Now, the distance, what he actually did,"},{"Start":"01:25.430 ","End":"01:27.815","Text":"I\u0027ll just write it as distance."},{"Start":"01:27.815 ","End":"01:29.565","Text":"On the 1 hand,"},{"Start":"01:29.565 ","End":"01:36.830","Text":"he drove at speed v for 4 hours so it\u0027s 4 times v. This is the actual,"},{"Start":"01:36.830 ","End":"01:38.998","Text":"and in the hypothetical,"},{"Start":"01:38.998 ","End":"01:40.850","Text":"it\u0027s the same distance,"},{"Start":"01:40.850 ","End":"01:44.080","Text":"but what it is is that it\u0027s only 3 hours."},{"Start":"01:44.080 ","End":"01:45.360","Text":"On the other hand,"},{"Start":"01:45.360 ","End":"01:46.515","Text":"it\u0027s not v,"},{"Start":"01:46.515 ","End":"01:51.670","Text":"it\u0027s 5 miles an hour faster so it\u0027s v plus 5."},{"Start":"01:51.670 ","End":"01:53.330","Text":"Now, the distance is the same,"},{"Start":"01:53.330 ","End":"01:55.085","Text":"so I can equate these 2."},{"Start":"01:55.085 ","End":"02:02.770","Text":"This gives me the equation that 4v equals 3 times v plus 5."},{"Start":"02:02.770 ","End":"02:05.075","Text":"Now it\u0027s straightforward algebra."},{"Start":"02:05.075 ","End":"02:10.940","Text":"4 v equals 3v plus 3 times 5 is 15."},{"Start":"02:10.940 ","End":"02:15.865","Text":"Bring this to the other side and we\u0027ve got v= 15."},{"Start":"02:15.865 ","End":"02:18.616","Text":"We can\u0027t say the answer is v=15,"},{"Start":"02:18.616 ","End":"02:20.690","Text":"you have to see what did they ask?"},{"Start":"02:20.690 ","End":"02:22.430","Text":"What did I ask? What\u0027s the question?"},{"Start":"02:22.430 ","End":"02:24.590","Text":"What is the distance traveled?"},{"Start":"02:24.590 ","End":"02:29.330","Text":"Even if you\u0027d say the velocity initially was 15 miles per hour,"},{"Start":"02:29.330 ","End":"02:30.943","Text":"still wouldn\u0027t be the answer,"},{"Start":"02:30.943 ","End":"02:32.569","Text":"we want this distance."},{"Start":"02:32.569 ","End":"02:36.900","Text":"All we have to do is say that the distance that he traveled,"},{"Start":"02:36.900 ","End":"02:38.150","Text":"I write the word distance again,"},{"Start":"02:38.150 ","End":"02:46.040","Text":"I could\u0027ve just said d is 4 times v is 15, which is 60."},{"Start":"02:46.040 ","End":"02:53.290","Text":"At the end, just remember to write the units it\u0027s recommended and it\u0027s miles."},{"Start":"02:53.290 ","End":"02:58.150","Text":"That\u0027s our answer and we\u0027re done."}],"ID":8220},{"Watched":false,"Name":"Exercise 4","Duration":"2m 25s","ChapterTopicVideoID":4975,"CourseChapterTopicPlaylistID":56129,"HasSubtitles":true,"ThumbnailPath":"https://www.proprep.com/Images/Videos_Thumbnails/4975.jpeg","UploadDate":"2019-05-29T08:56:56.3070000","DurationForVideoObject":"PT2M25S","Description":null,"VideoComments":[],"Subtitles":[{"Start":"00:00.000 ","End":"00:02.970","Text":"Let\u0027s read the problem carefully."},{"Start":"00:02.970 ","End":"00:11.580","Text":"The price of an electrical appliance is $142.60 after adding a sales tax of 6 percent."},{"Start":"00:11.580 ","End":"00:14.670","Text":"What\u0027s the price of the appliance before tax?"},{"Start":"00:14.670 ","End":"00:19.238","Text":"One of the first things you want to do is assign a variable,"},{"Start":"00:19.238 ","End":"00:25.170","Text":"and sometimes the most obvious the best is to assign a name to what we\u0027re looking for,"},{"Start":"00:25.170 ","End":"00:26.820","Text":"the price before tax."},{"Start":"00:26.820 ","End":"00:32.280","Text":"Let\u0027s do that. Let\u0027s say that the price before tax,"},{"Start":"00:32.280 ","End":"00:34.380","Text":"I don\u0027t want to use X all the time,"},{"Start":"00:34.380 ","End":"00:36.105","Text":"P for price. How about that?"},{"Start":"00:36.105 ","End":"00:42.755","Text":"Is P. Now we have to find an equation involving P and solve for it."},{"Start":"00:42.755 ","End":"00:45.380","Text":"What we can say is build up to it."},{"Start":"00:45.380 ","End":"00:46.790","Text":"Let\u0027s say P is the price."},{"Start":"00:46.790 ","End":"00:48.695","Text":"Let\u0027s see what the sales tax is."},{"Start":"00:48.695 ","End":"00:52.680","Text":"The sales tax on that is 6 percent of it,"},{"Start":"00:52.680 ","End":"00:58.760","Text":"which is 6 percent of P. What is 6 percent? 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","End":"01:10.190","Text":"This is a plane A,"},{"Start":"01:10.190 ","End":"01:12.335","Text":"the fast one, plane B."},{"Start":"01:12.335 ","End":"01:16.100","Text":"What I do know is that the distance as I put an arrow,"},{"Start":"01:16.100 ","End":"01:21.545","Text":"distance from here to here is 280 miles."},{"Start":"01:21.545 ","End":"01:24.515","Text":"Let\u0027s also mark the place where they meet."},{"Start":"01:24.515 ","End":"01:27.035","Text":"They meet somewhere here."},{"Start":"01:27.035 ","End":"01:32.030","Text":"They\u0027re obviously going to meet right of the middle because this one is the faster one."},{"Start":"01:32.030 ","End":"01:34.940","Text":"This doesn\u0027t have to be to scale but I would think that"},{"Start":"01:34.940 ","End":"01:38.795","Text":"this point should be seen to be closer to B than to A,"},{"Start":"01:38.795 ","End":"01:42.605","Text":"because this is the faster one it covers more distance."},{"Start":"01:42.605 ","End":"01:48.200","Text":"Now, before we assign variables sometimes we write what are called word equations."},{"Start":"01:48.200 ","End":"01:54.950","Text":"For example, I might want to say that the distance from here to here."},{"Start":"01:54.950 ","End":"01:56.330","Text":"Let me just join that up."},{"Start":"01:56.330 ","End":"01:59.585","Text":"This is the distance traveled by train A."},{"Start":"01:59.585 ","End":"02:03.740","Text":"Let\u0027s just write distance of A,"},{"Start":"02:03.740 ","End":"02:06.965","Text":"just for short and from here to here,"},{"Start":"02:06.965 ","End":"02:14.460","Text":"this would be the distance traveled by train B. I\u0027ll just write it as that."},{"Start":"02:14.460 ","End":"02:16.790","Text":"These are corresponding here,"},{"Start":"02:16.790 ","End":"02:18.320","Text":"this corresponds to this,"},{"Start":"02:18.320 ","End":"02:19.790","Text":"this is the middle."},{"Start":"02:19.790 ","End":"02:22.805","Text":"We can write two things at least."},{"Start":"02:22.805 ","End":"02:28.225","Text":"We can write that the distance of A plus the distance of B is 280."},{"Start":"02:28.225 ","End":"02:31.770","Text":"Just even write distance A,"},{"Start":"02:31.770 ","End":"02:38.630","Text":"just to abbreviate, plus distance B equals 280."},{"Start":"02:38.630 ","End":"02:40.355","Text":"This plus this is this."},{"Start":"02:40.355 ","End":"02:43.820","Text":"The other thing we know is something involving their speeds,"},{"Start":"02:43.820 ","End":"02:46.360","Text":"I like to use the word velocity rather than speed."},{"Start":"02:46.360 ","End":"02:55.148","Text":"Let\u0027s say that B travels at velocity of v. 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This is v,"},{"Start":"03:30.950 ","End":"03:32.390","Text":"this is v plus 10."},{"Start":"03:32.390 ","End":"03:35.405","Text":"You could have done it the other way around and said,"},{"Start":"03:35.405 ","End":"03:41.305","Text":"use some latter for the velocity of A and then say that this is that minus 10."},{"Start":"03:41.305 ","End":"03:43.030","Text":"I prefer a plus than a minus,"},{"Start":"03:43.030 ","End":"03:47.090","Text":"so the smaller one is the one I labeled v but you could\u0027ve done it the other way around."},{"Start":"03:47.090 ","End":"03:50.635","Text":"This is v and then this is v minus 10."},{"Start":"03:50.635 ","End":"03:56.765","Text":"Now there\u0027s something you have to remember from distance and the speed and time problems."},{"Start":"03:56.765 ","End":"03:58.550","Text":"That is that in general,"},{"Start":"03:58.550 ","End":"04:03.440","Text":"that the distance covered by something moving at a constant speed,"},{"Start":"04:03.440 ","End":"04:09.970","Text":"is speed or velocity multiplied by time."},{"Start":"04:09.970 ","End":"04:14.930","Text":"If we use this general property in each of these,"},{"Start":"04:14.930 ","End":"04:17.270","Text":"let\u0027s take the first equation."},{"Start":"04:17.270 ","End":"04:19.040","Text":"We can rewrite it,"},{"Start":"04:19.040 ","End":"04:28.385","Text":"that the distance of A is the velocity of A multiplied by,"},{"Start":"04:28.385 ","End":"04:31.610","Text":"now the time is the same for both."},{"Start":"04:31.610 ","End":"04:35.600","Text":"They both travel the same 3.5 hours when they meet."},{"Start":"04:35.600 ","End":"04:37.265","Text":"Otherwise it doesn\u0027t count as meeting,"},{"Start":"04:37.265 ","End":"04:38.975","Text":"meeting means they traveled for the same time,"},{"Start":"04:38.975 ","End":"04:44.270","Text":"time is 3/1/2 plus the distance of B is"},{"Start":"04:44.270 ","End":"04:51.140","Text":"the velocity of B times 3/1/2,"},{"Start":"04:51.140 ","End":"04:53.470","Text":"and this is going to be equal to 280."},{"Start":"04:53.470 ","End":"04:56.330","Text":"Now, the other thing we can do is substitute now because we\u0027ve already"},{"Start":"04:56.330 ","End":"04:59.435","Text":"said the velocity of A is v plus 10"},{"Start":"04:59.435 ","End":"05:05.730","Text":"and the velocity of B is just v. What we get is that,"},{"Start":"05:05.730 ","End":"05:10.095","Text":"v plus 10 times"},{"Start":"05:10.095 ","End":"05:20.190","Text":"3/1/2 plus v times 3/1/2 is equal to 280."},{"Start":"05:20.190 ","End":"05:27.033","Text":"Now we\u0027ve got an equation involving v. Let\u0027s see if we can collect terms,"},{"Start":"05:27.033 ","End":"05:28.310","Text":"if we open the brackets."},{"Start":"05:28.310 ","End":"05:33.013","Text":"First of all expand, we\u0027ve got 3/1/2v plus,"},{"Start":"05:33.013 ","End":"05:42.960","Text":"3/1/2 times 10 is 35 plus 3/1/2v is equal to 280."},{"Start":"05:42.960 ","End":"05:46.857","Text":"We can combine 3/1/2v with 3/1/2v,"},{"Start":"05:46.857 ","End":"05:49.938","Text":"so we\u0027ve got 7v."},{"Start":"05:49.938 ","End":"06:01.385","Text":"We can move the 35 to the other side and get 280 minus 35 is 245."},{"Start":"06:01.385 ","End":"06:06.185","Text":"Then if we divide both sides by 7,"},{"Start":"06:06.185 ","End":"06:09.440","Text":"then we get v equals, let\u0027s see,"},{"Start":"06:09.440 ","End":"06:11.914","Text":"245 over 7"},{"Start":"06:11.914 ","End":"06:21.140","Text":"is 35."},{"Start":"06:21.140 ","End":"06:25.715","Text":"Now, you can\u0027t leave the answer as v equals 35."},{"Start":"06:25.715 ","End":"06:27.005","Text":"To remember what they are,"},{"Start":"06:27.005 ","End":"06:28.490","Text":"let\u0027s go back and see."},{"Start":"06:28.490 ","End":"06:32.440","Text":"The question asked, how fast did each of them travel?"},{"Start":"06:32.440 ","End":"06:42.604","Text":"You would write train B traveled at 35 and our speeds are in miles per hour."},{"Start":"06:42.604 ","End":"06:46.785","Text":"Then A traveled at,"},{"Start":"06:46.785 ","End":"06:48.940","Text":"it was 10 miles an hour more."},{"Start":"06:48.940 ","End":"06:53.990","Text":"Remember we said that the velocity of A is v plus 10, so 45."},{"Start":"06:53.990 ","End":"06:58.910","Text":"At the side I would do rather 35 plus 10 equals 45."},{"Start":"06:58.910 ","End":"07:00.830","Text":"But it\u0027s how easy we did it in our heads,"},{"Start":"07:00.830 ","End":"07:08.310","Text":"it\u0027s 45 miles per hour and that then is the answer. We\u0027re done."}],"ID":4977},{"Watched":false,"Name":"Exercise 7","Duration":"4m 47s","ChapterTopicVideoID":4978,"CourseChapterTopicPlaylistID":56129,"HasSubtitles":true,"ThumbnailPath":"https://www.proprep.com/Images/Videos_Thumbnails/4978.jpeg","UploadDate":"2019-05-29T08:58:21.1670000","DurationForVideoObject":"PT4M47S","Description":null,"VideoComments":[],"Subtitles":[{"Start":"00:00.000 ","End":"00:02.489","Text":"Let\u0027s read this word problem."},{"Start":"00:02.489 ","End":"00:07.845","Text":"A car and a truck start traveling north simultaneously on the same highway."},{"Start":"00:07.845 ","End":"00:12.345","Text":"At the start, the truck is 35 kilometers north of the car."},{"Start":"00:12.345 ","End":"00:13.913","Text":"If you don\u0027t like kilometers,"},{"Start":"00:13.913 ","End":"00:19.530","Text":"you can just replace the word kilometer with mile throughout and same mathematics."},{"Start":"00:19.530 ","End":"00:23.175","Text":"It\u0027s only in the United States 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","End":"01:28.445","Text":"the truck at someplace here and this is the meeting place."},{"Start":"01:28.445 ","End":"01:31.879","Text":"Now, there are three different distances involved."},{"Start":"01:31.879 ","End":"01:33.275","Text":"There is the distance,"},{"Start":"01:33.275 ","End":"01:35.285","Text":"actually mark it right on the highway,"},{"Start":"01:35.285 ","End":"01:40.460","Text":"from here to here which is 35 kilometers."},{"Start":"01:40.460 ","End":"01:43.925","Text":"Then we have the distance from here to here,"},{"Start":"01:43.925 ","End":"01:47.285","Text":"which is the distance traveled by the truck."},{"Start":"01:47.285 ","End":"01:50.135","Text":"We\u0027ll just call it distance of truck."},{"Start":"01:50.135 ","End":"01:52.000","Text":"Then from here to here,"},{"Start":"01:52.000 ","End":"01:55.740","Text":"put a little arrow here and here."},{"Start":"01:55.740 ","End":"02:00.210","Text":"From here to here is the distance traveled by the 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","End":"02:48.545","Text":"kilometers per hour of hours."},{"Start":"02:48.545 ","End":"02:53.450","Text":"Also, this assumes a constant velocity that everything goes at a constant speed."},{"Start":"02:53.450 ","End":"03:01.430","Text":"If we use this formula on each of the three pieces or rather on 35 we know,"},{"Start":"03:01.430 ","End":"03:02.620","Text":"but the distance,"},{"Start":"03:02.620 ","End":"03:06.130","Text":"we can write as speed times time."},{"Start":"03:06.130 ","End":"03:10.505","Text":"I think this is a good time to assign a variable at the time."},{"Start":"03:10.505 ","End":"03:14.600","Text":"Let that equals t. The time is the same for both."},{"Start":"03:14.600 ","End":"03:17.075","Text":"They both started simultaneously."},{"Start":"03:17.075 ","End":"03:20.720","Text":"When they meet, they both traveled for the same time."},{"Start":"03:20.720 ","End":"03:22.250","Text":"That\u0027s the how long."},{"Start":"03:22.250 ","End":"03:25.280","Text":"We\u0027ll let that time equals t. This time is"},{"Start":"03:25.280 ","End":"03:28.850","Text":"exactly the how long that we\u0027re asked for in the question."},{"Start":"03:28.850 ","End":"03:30.595","Text":"Now, we can use this formula,"},{"Start":"03:30.595 ","End":"03:36.665","Text":"the distance of the car is the velocity times time the velocity is 90."},{"Start":"03:36.665 ","End":"03:43.260","Text":"We have 90 times t is equal to 35,"},{"Start":"03:43.260 ","End":"03:44.520","Text":"I\u0027m just copying,"},{"Start":"03:44.520 ","End":"03:48.376","Text":"and the distance of the truck also is velocity times time,"},{"Start":"03:48.376 ","End":"03:54.485","Text":"it\u0027s 70 times the same t. 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That\u0027s the how long is in t and I\u0027m measuring it"},{"Start":"03:30.435 ","End":"03:33.270","Text":"in hours cause that\u0027s the unit I have chosen"},{"Start":"03:33.270 ","End":"03:36.240","Text":"for the rate also that\u0027s the only unit that is mentioned here,"},{"Start":"03:36.240 ","End":"03:44.750","Text":"so times t. Now that\u0027s a pretty straightforward equation because I now get that t is"},{"Start":"03:44.750 ","End":"03:53.930","Text":"equal to 1 over 1/8 plus 1/13 and push you could do this as a decimal on the calculator,"},{"Start":"03:53.930 ","End":"03:56.720","Text":"but let\u0027s practice fractions."},{"Start":"03:56.720 ","End":"04:00.065","Text":"No. Let\u0027s just continue developing it."},{"Start":"04:00.065 ","End":"04:02.450","Text":"Let\u0027s do the denominator first,"},{"Start":"04:02.450 ","End":"04:04.295","Text":"1/8 plus 1/13,"},{"Start":"04:04.295 ","End":"04:08.490","Text":"we put a common denominator and let it be 8 times"},{"Start":"04:08.490 ","End":"04:14.645","Text":"13 that\u0027s the least common denominator cause they have nothing in common so 8 times 13."},{"Start":"04:14.645 ","End":"04:18.290","Text":"Well, I\u0027ll just write it as 8 times 13 and multiply it afterwards,"},{"Start":"04:18.290 ","End":"04:20.905","Text":"so,8 goes into 8 times 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hour,"},{"Start":"00:53.100 ","End":"00:56.549","Text":"and Becky\u0027s rate, we don\u0027t know."},{"Start":"00:56.549 ","End":"00:58.214","Text":"I\u0027ll leave that for the moment,"},{"Start":"00:58.214 ","End":"01:00.605","Text":"so leave a place holder for Becky."},{"Start":"01:00.605 ","End":"01:05.470","Text":"But the combined rate is 1/9."},{"Start":"01:05.470 ","End":"01:10.845","Text":"If we do the job in 9 hours then they do 1/9 of the job per hour."},{"Start":"01:10.845 ","End":"01:12.650","Text":"Now, Becky is blank for"},{"Start":"01:12.650 ","End":"01:15.800","Text":"the moment because we don\u0027t know how long it takes her to paint the fence."},{"Start":"01:15.800 ","End":"01:17.690","Text":"That\u0027s what we are asking."},{"Start":"01:17.690 ","End":"01:21.595","Text":"If I let this how long as a time be,"},{"Start":"01:21.595 ","End":"01:24.725","Text":"say t for time in hours,"},{"Start":"01:24.725 ","End":"01:32.215","Text":"then Becky\u0027s rate would be 1 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That is the variable."},{"Start":"02:12.680 ","End":"02:17.075","Text":"Let\u0027s solve it. Let\u0027s bring the number over to the other side and say that"},{"Start":"02:17.075 ","End":"02:23.315","Text":"1/t equals 1/9 minus 1/14."},{"Start":"02:23.315 ","End":"02:24.905","Text":"Let\u0027s see what this equals."},{"Start":"02:24.905 ","End":"02:30.220","Text":"If we let the common denominator be 9 times 14,"},{"Start":"02:30.220 ","End":"02:32.275","Text":"there\u0027s nothing lower that will do it."},{"Start":"02:32.275 ","End":"02:34.310","Text":"Turns out if they don\u0027t have any common factor then the"},{"Start":"02:34.310 ","End":"02:36.210","Text":"best you can do is to multiply them,"},{"Start":"02:36.210 ","End":"02:40.240","Text":"and actually you can almost blindly use the method of a diagonal."},{"Start":"02:40.240 ","End":"02:42.715","Text":"This times this is 14,"},{"Start":"02:42.715 ","End":"02:46.555","Text":"this times this 9 times 1 is 9 over this times this."},{"Start":"02:46.555 ","End":"02:51.015","Text":"In other words, we get 5 over, let\u0027s see,"},{"Start":"02:51.015 ","End":"02:56.715","Text":"9 times 14 would be 126."},{"Start":"02:56.715 ","End":"02:59.760","Text":"That\u0027s 1/t we\u0027re now working in the algebra."},{"Start":"02:59.760 ","End":"03:02.400","Text":"T is the reciprocal of that,"},{"Start":"03:02.400 ","End":"03:04.200","Text":"is 1 over this."},{"Start":"03:04.200 ","End":"03:05.820","Text":"We invert it."},{"Start":"03:05.820 ","End":"03:10.485","Text":"Well, I\u0027ll write it first as 1/5/126,"},{"Start":"03:10.485 ","End":"03:12.480","Text":"and we take 1 over a fraction,"},{"Start":"03:12.480 ","End":"03:17.295","Text":"the reciprocal we just invert it,126/5."},{"Start":"03:17.295 ","End":"03:24.170","Text":"We do the division, 5 goes into 125 times and 1/5,"},{"Start":"03:24.170 ","End":"03:29.410","Text":"and that\u0027s in hours and that\u0027s our answer."},{"Start":"03:31.160 ","End":"03:33.635","Text":"That\u0027s fine as an answer."},{"Start":"03:33.635 ","End":"03:37.915","Text":"If sometimes they ask for what it is in hours and minutes,"},{"Start":"03:37.915 ","End":"03:39.200","Text":"and in that case,"},{"Start":"03:39.200 ","End":"03:40.820","Text":"if they asked in hours and minutes,"},{"Start":"03:40.820 ","End":"03:43.325","Text":"I would say 25 hours."},{"Start":"03:43.325 ","End":"03:44.840","Text":"What is the fifth of an hour?"},{"Start":"03:44.840 ","End":"03:49.175","Text":"Well, 60/5 is 12 minutes."},{"Start":"03:49.175 ","End":"03:52.790","Text":"But I would say that this is the answer."},{"Start":"03:52.790 ","End":"03:56.130","Text":"This is just in case. We are done."}],"ID":4980},{"Watched":false,"Name":"Exercise 10","Duration":"5m 4s","ChapterTopicVideoID":4981,"CourseChapterTopicPlaylistID":56129,"HasSubtitles":true,"ThumbnailPath":"https://www.proprep.com/Images/Videos_Thumbnails/4981.jpeg","UploadDate":"2019-05-29T08:54:41.6900000","DurationForVideoObject":"PT5M4S","Description":null,"VideoComments":[],"Subtitles":[{"Start":"00:00.000 ","End":"00:02.040","Text":"Here we have a word problem,"},{"Start":"00:02.040 ","End":"00:07.965","Text":"and actually I got the idea from a cocktail mixed drink called a martini,"},{"Start":"00:07.965 ","End":"00:11.565","Text":"which is made from vermouth and gin,"},{"Start":"00:11.565 ","End":"00:15.990","Text":"and typically vermouth has around 17 percent alcohol,"},{"Start":"00:15.990 ","End":"00:19.005","Text":"whereas gin has 40 percent alcohol."},{"Start":"00:19.005 ","End":"00:24.420","Text":"The idea here is how much vermouth to mix with how much gin, I\u0027ll just read 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alcohol?"},{"Start":"01:42.260 ","End":"01:45.590","Text":"Well, in general, not just for the vermouth, in general,"},{"Start":"01:45.590 ","End":"01:48.860","Text":"the amount of alcohol,"},{"Start":"01:48.860 ","End":"01:50.645","Text":"the volume of alcohol,"},{"Start":"01:50.645 ","End":"01:58.100","Text":"is going to equal the amount of drink times the percentage of alcohol."},{"Start":"01:58.100 ","End":"02:00.635","Text":"It\u0027s just a percentage question."},{"Start":"02:00.635 ","End":"02:08.283","Text":"For example, here, the amount of alcohol in the vermouth would equal 17 percent,"},{"Start":"02:08.283 ","End":"02:10.465","Text":"I\u0027ll take the percentage first actually,"},{"Start":"02:10.465 ","End":"02:15.070","Text":"is 17 percent of the x,"},{"Start":"02:15.070 ","End":"02:24.825","Text":"and the amount of alcohol in the gin is equal to 40 percent of 50,"},{"Start":"02:24.825 ","End":"02:26.910","Text":"we\u0027re working in milliliters let\u0027s say,"},{"Start":"02:26.910 ","End":"02:35.460","Text":"and the amount of alcohol in the cocktail as a whole will equal this plus this,"},{"Start":"02:35.460 ","End":"02:41.970","Text":"so it\u0027s 17 percent of x is 0.17x,"},{"Start":"02:41.970 ","End":"02:43.620","Text":"let\u0027s work in decimals,"},{"Start":"02:43.620 ","End":"02:48.470","Text":"and here we have 0.4 times 50."},{"Start":"02:48.470 ","End":"02:50.720","Text":"I\u0027ll use the multiplication sign like this,"},{"Start":"02:50.720 ","End":"02:52.910","Text":"so it won\u0027t be confused with the decimal point."},{"Start":"02:52.910 ","End":"02:54.755","Text":"This is x, this is multiplication."},{"Start":"02:54.755 ","End":"02:56.690","Text":"Well, let\u0027s just not get confused."},{"Start":"02:56.690 ","End":"03:00.685","Text":"This will equal the sum of these two."},{"Start":"03:00.685 ","End":"03:03.020","Text":"Well, let\u0027s just write this in 2 ways."},{"Start":"03:03.020 ","End":"03:05.300","Text":"This is what gives us the equation."},{"Start":"03:05.300 ","End":"03:07.055","Text":"I\u0027ll write it over here."},{"Start":"03:07.055 ","End":"03:08.570","Text":"On the one hand,"},{"Start":"03:08.570 ","End":"03:17.085","Text":"it\u0027s 0.17x plus 0.4 times 50 is 20,"},{"Start":"03:17.085 ","End":"03:18.935","Text":"but on the other hand,"},{"Start":"03:18.935 ","End":"03:27.075","Text":"it\u0027s also equal to 30 percent using this formula of the total volume,"},{"Start":"03:27.075 ","End":"03:29.940","Text":"and the total volume is x plus 50."},{"Start":"03:29.940 ","End":"03:31.310","Text":"Let\u0027s modify this slightly."},{"Start":"03:31.310 ","End":"03:33.100","Text":"I want to put this over here."},{"Start":"03:33.100 ","End":"03:34.950","Text":"I\u0027ll just move this over here,"},{"Start":"03:34.950 ","End":"03:36.720","Text":"it will be more convenient,"},{"Start":"03:36.720 ","End":"03:41.930","Text":"and then to say that this 30 percent of x plus 50,"},{"Start":"03:41.930 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Let\u0027s just solve it."},{"Start":"03:54.210 ","End":"03:58.380","Text":"0.17x plus 20 equals"},{"Start":"03:58.380 ","End":"04:05.820","Text":"0.3x plus 0.3 times 50 is 15."},{"Start":"04:05.820 ","End":"04:11.000","Text":"Let\u0027s move the numbers to the left and the variables on the right,"},{"Start":"04:11.000 ","End":"04:12.230","Text":"so it\u0027ll be positive,"},{"Start":"04:12.230 ","End":"04:15.740","Text":"so 20 minus 15 is 5,"},{"Start":"04:15.740 ","End":"04:19.775","Text":"and 0.3 minus 0.17 is"},{"Start":"04:19.775 ","End":"04:26.640","Text":"0.13x because this is like 0.30 and 30 minus 17 is 13,"},{"Start":"04:26.640 ","End":"04:33.465","Text":"and so x is equal to 5/0.13,"},{"Start":"04:33.465 ","End":"04:40.870","Text":"and this will equal approximately 38.46,"},{"Start":"04:40.870 ","End":"04:44.010","Text":"and so this is our answer."},{"Start":"04:45.610 ","End":"04:49.360","Text":"How much vermouth? Let\u0027s round it off to the nearest milliliter,"},{"Start":"04:49.360 ","End":"04:51.515","Text":"or I could leave it like this, doesn\u0027t matter."},{"Start":"04:51.515 ","End":"05:00.785","Text":"38.46 milliliters of vermouth in the cocktail, etc."},{"Start":"05:00.785 ","End":"05:04.170","Text":"This is the answer."}],"ID":4981},{"Watched":false,"Name":"Exercise 11","Duration":"7m 2s","ChapterTopicVideoID":4982,"CourseChapterTopicPlaylistID":56129,"HasSubtitles":true,"ThumbnailPath":"https://www.proprep.com/Images/Videos_Thumbnails/4982.jpeg","UploadDate":"2019-05-29T08:55:25.7100000","DurationForVideoObject":"PT7M2S","Description":null,"VideoComments":[],"Subtitles":[{"Start":"00:00.000 ","End":"00:02.670","Text":"Here we have a word problem let\u0027s read it."},{"Start":"00:02.670 ","End":"00:07.095","Text":"We have 2 concentrations of sulfuric acid solutions:"},{"Start":"00:07.095 ","End":"00:12.540","Text":"15 percent and 40 percent the solutions are in water, I should say."},{"Start":"00:12.540 ","End":"00:20.189","Text":"How much of each should we mix together to get 100 liters of a 25 percent solution?"},{"Start":"00:20.189 ","End":"00:25.335","Text":"The last sentence just says that you have enough or any amount that you need of"},{"Start":"00:25.335 ","End":"00:30.375","Text":"each of these 2 concentrations they\u0027re 15 and the 40 percent."},{"Start":"00:30.375 ","End":"00:32.760","Text":"Let me just explain this in other words."},{"Start":"00:32.760 ","End":"00:35.340","Text":"Basically, you can order from the supplier"},{"Start":"00:35.340 ","End":"00:38.030","Text":"only 2 kinds of sulfuric acid and as much as you need it."},{"Start":"00:38.030 ","End":"00:40.400","Text":"There\u0027s a 15 percent concentration of"},{"Start":"00:40.400 ","End":"00:43.355","Text":"acid in water and there\u0027s a 40 percent concentration."},{"Start":"00:43.355 ","End":"00:50.030","Text":"But what you need for some chemical experiment is a 100 liters of 25 percent solution."},{"Start":"00:50.030 ","End":"00:54.350","Text":"By mixing the 15 and the 40 in the right quantities,"},{"Start":"00:54.350 ","End":"00:58.060","Text":"you\u0027re going to get a 25 percent solution and this is how much you\u0027re going to get of it."},{"Start":"00:58.060 ","End":"01:02.630","Text":"Let\u0027s see how much of each and do we need"},{"Start":"01:02.630 ","End":"01:07.550","Text":"2 variables because we have to know how much of each concentration,"},{"Start":"01:07.550 ","End":"01:09.080","Text":"how much of each solution."},{"Start":"01:09.080 ","End":"01:14.750","Text":"We don\u0027t need 2 variables because if we take a variable for one of them,"},{"Start":"01:14.750 ","End":"01:16.520","Text":"since we have a 100 liters together,"},{"Start":"01:16.520 ","End":"01:19.610","Text":"we can get the other variable in terms of that."},{"Start":"01:19.610 ","End":"01:24.560","Text":"Well, let\u0027s start. We\u0027ll work in liters."},{"Start":"01:24.560 ","End":"01:32.300","Text":"Let\u0027s say we have x liters of the 15 percent solution and then we"},{"Start":"01:32.300 ","End":"01:39.950","Text":"automatically have 100 minus x liters of the other solution,"},{"Start":"01:39.950 ","End":"01:42.995","Text":"which is the 40 percent solution."},{"Start":"01:42.995 ","End":"01:49.910","Text":"Right away, I\u0027ve used the fact which I could\u0027ve said in words that the amount of"},{"Start":"01:49.910 ","End":"01:52.655","Text":"this solution plus the amount of this solution is"},{"Start":"01:52.655 ","End":"01:57.020","Text":"100 but it\u0027s obvious so I just went ahead and said,"},{"Start":"01:57.020 ","End":"01:59.780","Text":"okay, then we have 100 minus x of the other."},{"Start":"01:59.780 ","End":"02:05.140","Text":"Now, the other word equation is the total amount of"},{"Start":"02:05.140 ","End":"02:09.800","Text":"the actual sulfuric acid in each solution is"},{"Start":"02:09.800 ","End":"02:14.420","Text":"going to equal the amount of acid in the mixture solution."},{"Start":"02:14.420 ","End":"02:17.570","Text":"In general, the amount,"},{"Start":"02:17.570 ","End":"02:18.680","Text":"I\u0027ll write that as Amt,"},{"Start":"02:18.680 ","End":"02:23.570","Text":"amount of acid in the solution,"},{"Start":"02:23.570 ","End":"02:25.640","Text":"I\u0027ll abbreviate that also,"},{"Start":"02:25.640 ","End":"02:32.044","Text":"is equal to the percentage of acid, how come?"},{"Start":"02:32.044 ","End":"02:36.950","Text":"That\u0027s the concentration whether it\u0027s a 15 or the 40 or the 25 or whatever,"},{"Start":"02:36.950 ","End":"02:44.945","Text":"the percentage of acid times the amount of the solution,"},{"Start":"02:44.945 ","End":"02:47.200","Text":"the volume of the solution."},{"Start":"02:47.200 ","End":"02:52.655","Text":"I\u0027m not going to do a computation with the amounts of acid in the 3 solutions."},{"Start":"02:52.655 ","End":"02:57.080","Text":"I have, basically the 15 percent solution,"},{"Start":"02:57.080 ","End":"03:04.655","Text":"I have the 40 percent solution and I have the mixture which is the 25 percent solution."},{"Start":"03:04.655 ","End":"03:09.200","Text":"Let\u0027s compute the amount of acid in each of them."},{"Start":"03:09.200 ","End":"03:12.665","Text":"Amount of acid."},{"Start":"03:12.665 ","End":"03:16.470","Text":"Here I have 15 percent,"},{"Start":"03:16.470 ","End":"03:25.760","Text":"which is 0.15 times the amount of 15 percent solution, which is x."},{"Start":"03:25.760 ","End":"03:28.200","Text":"Here I have 40 percent,"},{"Start":"03:28.200 ","End":"03:35.055","Text":"which is 0.4 times this amount which is 100 minus x."},{"Start":"03:35.055 ","End":"03:39.965","Text":"Here I get the equation because on the one hand,"},{"Start":"03:39.965 ","End":"03:46.925","Text":"I have 25 percent of 100 because of the concentration equation."},{"Start":"03:46.925 ","End":"03:48.335","Text":"On the other hand,"},{"Start":"03:48.335 ","End":"03:53.000","Text":"the amount of acid in the mixture is equal to the amount of acid here plus this."},{"Start":"03:53.000 ","End":"03:56.655","Text":"There was this, plus this equals this,"},{"Start":"03:56.655 ","End":"03:58.460","Text":"I get that on the other hand,"},{"Start":"03:58.460 ","End":"04:06.415","Text":"is equal to 0.15x plus 0.4 times 100 minus x."},{"Start":"04:06.415 ","End":"04:07.805","Text":"Let\u0027s go over that again."},{"Start":"04:07.805 ","End":"04:11.299","Text":"I\u0027m computing the amount of acid in the mixture in 2 ways."},{"Start":"04:11.299 ","End":"04:14.765","Text":"One way is taking the concentration 25 percent or"},{"Start":"04:14.765 ","End":"04:18.950","Text":"0.25 of the 100 liters, on the other hand,"},{"Start":"04:18.950 ","End":"04:21.175","Text":"it\u0027s equal to the amount of acid in"},{"Start":"04:21.175 ","End":"04:25.010","Text":"one solution plus the amount of acid in the other and in each case,"},{"Start":"04:25.010 ","End":"04:31.055","Text":"I multiplied the percentage by the amount to get the quantity of just sulfuric acid."},{"Start":"04:31.055 ","End":"04:35.025","Text":"Now it\u0027s a linear equation let\u0027s just work on it."},{"Start":"04:35.025 ","End":"04:37.745","Text":"I\u0027ll copy the left-hand side."},{"Start":"04:37.745 ","End":"04:40.655","Text":"Well, actually I can multiply it out, why not?"},{"Start":"04:40.655 ","End":"04:42.305","Text":"So I\u0027ll erase that."},{"Start":"04:42.305 ","End":"04:47.480","Text":"0.25 times 100 is just 25 that\u0027s straightforward,"},{"Start":"04:47.480 ","End":"04:54.565","Text":"is equal to 0.15x plus 0.4 times 100 is 40."},{"Start":"04:54.565 ","End":"04:59.693","Text":"Multiplying by 100 is relatively easy and then minus 0.4x."},{"Start":"04:59.693 ","End":"05:05.075","Text":"Now let\u0027s put xs on the left and numbers on the right."},{"Start":"05:05.075 ","End":"05:10.240","Text":"On the left, I have 0.4x"},{"Start":"05:10.240 ","End":"05:16.335","Text":"minus 0.15x is equal to,"},{"Start":"05:16.335 ","End":"05:20.670","Text":"on the right-hand side 40 minus 25,"},{"Start":"05:20.670 ","End":"05:23.130","Text":"0.4 is the same as 0.40,"},{"Start":"05:23.130 ","End":"05:30.824","Text":"so 40 minus 15 is 25 so I\u0027ve got 0.25x is equal to"},{"Start":"05:30.824 ","End":"05:40.060","Text":"40 minus 25 is 15. x is equal to 15 divided by,"},{"Start":"05:40.060 ","End":"05:44.380","Text":"we just dividing both sides by 0.25 and"},{"Start":"05:44.380 ","End":"05:48.945","Text":"this point we can use a calculator or I can try without a calculator."},{"Start":"05:48.945 ","End":"05:51.170","Text":"Let\u0027s see. To get rid of the decimal,"},{"Start":"05:51.170 ","End":"05:59.230","Text":"I can multiply top and bottom by a 100 and then I get 1500 over just 25,"},{"Start":"05:59.230 ","End":"06:03.765","Text":"25 goes into 1500 if I divide it,"},{"Start":"06:03.765 ","End":"06:06.090","Text":"I can see that 25 goes into 100,"},{"Start":"06:06.090 ","End":"06:09.995","Text":"4 times, times the 15 is 60."},{"Start":"06:09.995 ","End":"06:12.110","Text":"Better to do it on the calculator and check."},{"Start":"06:12.110 ","End":"06:19.390","Text":"I make the answer as 60 liters of 15 percent solution,"},{"Start":"06:19.390 ","End":"06:21.540","Text":"but the question asked,"},{"Start":"06:21.540 ","End":"06:24.220","Text":"how much of each?"},{"Start":"06:24.220 ","End":"06:29.060","Text":"I also have to say how much of the 40 percent solution,"},{"Start":"06:29.060 ","End":"06:31.175","Text":"that\u0027s going to be 100 minus x."},{"Start":"06:31.175 ","End":"06:33.930","Text":"Let me just scroll down."},{"Start":"06:35.060 ","End":"06:37.200","Text":"Do a side exercise,"},{"Start":"06:37.200 ","End":"06:41.580","Text":"a 100 minus 60 equals 40,"},{"Start":"06:41.580 ","End":"06:47.985","Text":"so it\u0027s 40 liters of the 40 percent,"},{"Start":"06:47.985 ","End":"06:52.555","Text":"I should write the word solution, abbreviated solution."},{"Start":"06:52.555 ","End":"06:54.195","Text":"There\u0027s 40 liters,"},{"Start":"06:54.195 ","End":"06:55.830","Text":"these are both 2 answers,"},{"Start":"06:55.830 ","End":"06:57.855","Text":"the question asked how much of each."},{"Start":"06:57.855 ","End":"07:02.800","Text":"Okay. We are done."}],"ID":4982},{"Watched":false,"Name":"Exercise 12","Duration":"2m 52s","ChapterTopicVideoID":4983,"CourseChapterTopicPlaylistID":56129,"HasSubtitles":true,"ThumbnailPath":"https://www.proprep.com/Images/Videos_Thumbnails/4983.jpeg","UploadDate":"2019-05-29T08:55:42.0030000","DurationForVideoObject":"PT2M52S","Description":null,"VideoComments":[],"Subtitles":[{"Start":"00:00.000 ","End":"00:03.225","Text":"This exercise is a word problem. Let\u0027s read it."},{"Start":"00:03.225 ","End":"00:07.815","Text":"A rectangular field is surrounded by 90 meters of fence."},{"Start":"00:07.815 ","End":"00:10.935","Text":"The field is twice as long as it is wide."},{"Start":"00:10.935 ","End":"00:13.410","Text":"What are the dimensions of the field?"},{"Start":"00:13.410 ","End":"00:16.905","Text":"I think a sketch would probably help here."},{"Start":"00:16.905 ","End":"00:20.080","Text":"Let\u0027s say we want to draw a rectangular field."},{"Start":"00:20.080 ","End":"00:25.350","Text":"It has 4 sides, 1,2,3,4."},{"Start":"00:27.050 ","End":"00:29.765","Text":"I straightened it out a bit."},{"Start":"00:29.765 ","End":"00:32.885","Text":"Let\u0027s decide on a variable."},{"Start":"00:32.885 ","End":"00:34.520","Text":"Well, we need 2 things?"},{"Start":"00:34.520 ","End":"00:38.225","Text":"We need both the length and the width, that\u0027s the dimensions."},{"Start":"00:38.225 ","End":"00:40.565","Text":"This is the width and that\u0027s the length."},{"Start":"00:40.565 ","End":"00:44.270","Text":"But we really only need to decide on a name for one of them."},{"Start":"00:44.270 ","End":"00:46.370","Text":"Because one\u0027s, twice the other."},{"Start":"00:46.370 ","End":"00:48.770","Text":"I either say that this is half of this,"},{"Start":"00:48.770 ","End":"00:49.820","Text":"or this is twice this."},{"Start":"00:49.820 ","End":"00:57.395","Text":"I prefer to say that this is x and that this would be twice x."},{"Start":"00:57.395 ","End":"01:06.365","Text":"That\u0027s that and the equation that we have is that we have 90 meters of fence."},{"Start":"01:06.365 ","End":"01:09.755","Text":"Now, the fence has 4 parts."},{"Start":"01:09.755 ","End":"01:11.735","Text":"We have x here, 2x here,"},{"Start":"01:11.735 ","End":"01:13.610","Text":"this is also 2x,"},{"Start":"01:13.610 ","End":"01:15.950","Text":"this is also x."},{"Start":"01:15.950 ","End":"01:19.699","Text":"Basically what we have is the perimeter,"},{"Start":"01:19.699 ","End":"01:20.975","Text":"that\u0027s what it\u0027s called,"},{"Start":"01:20.975 ","End":"01:23.495","Text":"the length going around,"},{"Start":"01:23.495 ","End":"01:28.645","Text":"we have x plus 2x plus x again,"},{"Start":"01:28.645 ","End":"01:34.625","Text":"plus 2x again, all this is equal to 90."},{"Start":"01:34.625 ","End":"01:36.740","Text":"Now if we add up the x\u0027s here,"},{"Start":"01:36.740 ","End":"01:39.605","Text":"1 and 2 and 1 and 2 is 6."},{"Start":"01:39.605 ","End":"01:43.950","Text":"So we get that 6x is equal to 90."},{"Start":"01:43.950 ","End":"01:46.555","Text":"Then dividing both sides by 6,"},{"Start":"01:46.555 ","End":"01:50.750","Text":"we get that x is equal to 15."},{"Start":"01:50.750 ","End":"01:55.520","Text":"Now the question asks for the dimensions,"},{"Start":"01:55.520 ","End":"02:00.305","Text":"so you could say the field is"},{"Start":"02:00.305 ","End":"02:08.040","Text":"15 meters by 2x is 30 meters."},{"Start":"02:08.040 ","End":"02:09.930","Text":"Or you could just say,"},{"Start":"02:09.930 ","End":"02:16.910","Text":"something like the length equals 30, width equals 15."},{"Start":"02:16.910 ","End":"02:18.260","Text":"Many ways to phrase it,"},{"Start":"02:18.260 ","End":"02:19.760","Text":"I\u0027ll just leave it like that."},{"Start":"02:19.760 ","End":"02:21.845","Text":"It\u0027s 15 by 30."},{"Start":"02:21.845 ","End":"02:24.860","Text":"In fact, we could even check that everything works here,"},{"Start":"02:24.860 ","End":"02:26.900","Text":"because if this is the width,"},{"Start":"02:26.900 ","End":"02:30.230","Text":"I\u0027ll just write w here and this is the length l. We"},{"Start":"02:30.230 ","End":"02:33.725","Text":"see that the length is indeed twice the width."},{"Start":"02:33.725 ","End":"02:37.260","Text":"So that satisfies that condition."},{"Start":"02:37.260 ","End":"02:39.830","Text":"Is it 90 meters of fence?"},{"Start":"02:39.830 ","End":"02:41.650","Text":"Well, if this is 30,"},{"Start":"02:41.650 ","End":"02:46.700","Text":"we have twice 30 is 60 and twice 15 is another 30,"},{"Start":"02:46.700 ","End":"02:47.990","Text":"so it really is 90,"},{"Start":"02:47.990 ","End":"02:49.550","Text":"so it all works out."},{"Start":"02:49.550 ","End":"02:52.860","Text":"And this was a short problem. We are done."}],"ID":4983}],"Thumbnail":null,"ID":56129},{"Name":"Quadratic Equations","TopicPlaylistFirstVideoID":0,"Duration":null,"Videos":[{"Watched":false,"Name":"Quadratic Equations, Formula","Duration":"7m 48s","ChapterTopicVideoID":4993,"CourseChapterTopicPlaylistID":56130,"HasSubtitles":true,"ThumbnailPath":"https://www.proprep.com/Images/Videos_Thumbnails/4993.jpeg","UploadDate":"2020-09-30T08:13:24.1830000","DurationForVideoObject":"PT7M48S","Description":null,"VideoComments":[],"Subtitles":[{"Start":"00:00.000 ","End":"00:05.310","Text":"Now we come to quadratic equations which are not linear."},{"Start":"00:05.310 ","End":"00:07.170","Text":"Let me show you an example of"},{"Start":"00:07.170 ","End":"00:17.415","Text":"1(x)^2 plus 2x minus 8=0."},{"Start":"00:17.415 ","End":"00:19.005","Text":"This is an example."},{"Start":"00:19.005 ","End":"00:23.200","Text":"What makes it quadratic is the presence of (x)^2."},{"Start":"00:23.200 ","End":"00:29.010","Text":"I think the word quadratic comes from the word square of squared in Latin."},{"Start":"00:29.010 ","End":"00:36.465","Text":"I know that things with this prefix like quadrilateral and quadrangle it means full."},{"Start":"00:36.465 ","End":"00:45.200","Text":"Anyway, quadratic just means having an (x)^2 in it and also an x and a number."},{"Start":"00:45.200 ","End":"00:48.330","Text":"This is a typical quadratic equation."},{"Start":"00:48.880 ","End":"00:54.965","Text":"There\u0027s not an easy way to solve it unless you know the trick or the formula."},{"Start":"00:54.965 ","End":"00:56.990","Text":"If you try just messing with it,"},{"Start":"00:56.990 ","End":"00:59.450","Text":"you won\u0027t get very far."},{"Start":"00:59.450 ","End":"01:05.030","Text":"Let me give you the formula for solving such a thing."},{"Start":"01:05.030 ","End":"01:11.630","Text":"Here is the formula and I need to explain what\u0027s going on here."},{"Start":"01:11.630 ","End":"01:14.750","Text":"First of all, it 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Remember the order of operations brackets first."},{"Start":"04:37.400 ","End":"04:41.135","Text":"Well, what\u0027s under the square root sign counts like it was a bracket."},{"Start":"04:41.135 ","End":"04:45.725","Text":"I have to do what\u0027s under the square root sign first and often."},{"Start":"04:45.725 ","End":"04:49.650","Text":"In fact, I\u0027ll start off right away by doing it at the side."},{"Start":"04:49.690 ","End":"04:54.605","Text":"This part here, I like doing as a side exercise."},{"Start":"04:54.605 ","End":"05:04.320","Text":"What I get is 2^2 is 4 and minus,"},{"Start":"05:04.320 ","End":"05:12.610","Text":"now 4 times 1 times minus 8 is minus 32."},{"Start":"05:13.400 ","End":"05:23.140","Text":"That makes it 4 plus 32, which is 36."},{"Start":"05:23.570 ","End":"05:33.230","Text":"We have minus 2 plus or minus the square root of."},{"Start":"05:33.230 ","End":"05:36.890","Text":"Now this is what we did at the side, that\u0027s 36."},{"Start":"05:36.890 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all,"},{"Start":"00:24.390 ","End":"00:29.310","Text":"is the free co-efficient is minus 21."},{"Start":"00:29.310 ","End":"00:32.895","Text":"Next thing is to plug into the formula minus b."},{"Start":"00:32.895 ","End":"00:35.040","Text":"That\u0027s minus 10."},{"Start":"00:35.040 ","End":"00:43.230","Text":"Then plus or minus the square root of b^2 is 10^2 minus"},{"Start":"00:43.230 ","End":"00:51.650","Text":"4ac minus 4 times a is minus 1 and c is minus 21 and then there\u0027s a fraction,"},{"Start":"00:51.650 ","End":"00:57.650","Text":"it\u0027s all over 2a over 2 times a is minus 1."},{"Start":"00:57.650 ","End":"01:01.175","Text":"I\u0027m going to do the bit under the square root sign at the side here."},{"Start":"01:01.175 ","End":"01:04.925","Text":"Let\u0027s see. 10^2 is 100."},{"Start":"01:04.925 ","End":"01:07.175","Text":"Then I\u0027ll take this minus,"},{"Start":"01:07.175 ","End":"01:13.190","Text":"and then I\u0027ll do just this bit is 4 times minus 1 times minus 21 is 2 minuses."},{"Start":"01:13.190 ","End":"01:16.500","Text":"So it\u0027s 84."},{"Start":"01:16.820 ","End":"01:20.340","Text":"That is equal to 16."},{"Start":"01:20.340 ","End":"01:31.200","Text":"Back here, I have minus 10 plus or minus the square root of 16 over this is minus 2."},{"Start":"01:31.200 ","End":"01:34.920","Text":"The square root of 16 is 4."},{"Start":"01:34.920 ","End":"01:39.110","Text":"The two possibilities I get are choosing plus and minus."},{"Start":"01:39.110 ","End":"01:43.160","Text":"First the plus, minus 10."},{"Start":"01:43.160 ","End":"01:48.450","Text":"We said that this is 4 plus 4 over minus 2."},{"Start":"01:48.450 ","End":"01:51.350","Text":"Then the other one we\u0027ll get minus 10,"},{"Start":"01:51.350 ","End":"01:54.950","Text":"minus 4 over minus 2."},{"Start":"01:54.950 ","End":"02:00.360","Text":"In this case, it\u0027s minus 6 over minus 2 is plus 3,"},{"Start":"02:00.360 ","End":"02:07.100","Text":"minus over minus is plus and here we have minus 14 over minus 2 is 7."},{"Start":"02:07.100 ","End":"02:16.195","Text":"These are the two solutions and I\u0027ll highlight them there and there."},{"Start":"02:16.195 ","End":"02:17.690","Text":"Unlike in the previous example,"},{"Start":"02:17.690 ","End":"02:20.870","Text":"if you substitute 3 in this, you will get 0."},{"Start":"02:20.870 ","End":"02:23.720","Text":"If you substitute 7 in the left-hand side you\u0027ll also get 0."},{"Start":"02:23.720 ","End":"02:24.980","Text":"Both of these are solutions."},{"Start":"02:24.980 ","End":"02:26.735","Text":"But I\u0027m not going to check this time."},{"Start":"02:26.735 ","End":"02:28.370","Text":"You can do it yourself."},{"Start":"02:28.370 ","End":"02:31.050","Text":"Onto the next example."},{"Start":"02:31.520 ","End":"02:34.380","Text":"Here\u0027s the next example."},{"Start":"02:34.380 ","End":"02:36.105","Text":"Let\u0027s do it a bit quicker."},{"Start":"02:36.105 ","End":"02:37.610","Text":"We have to identify a,"},{"Start":"02:37.610 ","End":"02:39.625","Text":"b, and c in the formula."},{"Start":"02:39.625 ","End":"02:42.585","Text":"A is 4, that\u0027s this,"},{"Start":"02:42.585 ","End":"02:51.395","Text":"b is the coefficient of x minus 20 and c is the free co-efficient is 25."},{"Start":"02:51.395 ","End":"02:53.705","Text":"Plug it in the formula."},{"Start":"02:53.705 ","End":"02:55.985","Text":"Note that minus b,"},{"Start":"02:55.985 ","End":"03:02.220","Text":"and be careful here is plus 20 because b already is minus of minus of minus is plus,"},{"Start":"03:02.220 ","End":"03:03.635","Text":"so we have 20."},{"Start":"03:03.635 ","End":"03:12.350","Text":"Then plus or minus the square root of b^2,"},{"Start":"03:12.350 ","End":"03:16.619","Text":"is minus 20^2 minus 4ac minus 4 times a"},{"Start":"03:16.619 ","End":"03:22.680","Text":"times c. All this over,"},{"Start":"03:22.680 ","End":"03:26.250","Text":"2a, 2 times 4."},{"Start":"03:26.250 ","End":"03:30.175","Text":"I\u0027d like to compute what\u0027s under the square root sign at the side."},{"Start":"03:30.175 ","End":"03:35.095","Text":"Let\u0027s see, minus 20^2 is the same as 20^2,"},{"Start":"03:35.095 ","End":"03:39.530","Text":"which is 20 times 20 is 400."},{"Start":"03:39.530 ","End":"03:44.160","Text":"Then minus 4 times 4 times 25."},{"Start":"03:44.160 ","End":"03:50.805","Text":"Let\u0027s do 4 times 25 is 100 and then times 4 is 400."},{"Start":"03:50.805 ","End":"03:54.070","Text":"What I get is 0."},{"Start":"03:55.220 ","End":"04:06.270","Text":"We have 20 plus or minus the square root of 0 over 2 times 4 is 8."},{"Start":"04:06.270 ","End":"04:08.540","Text":"Now, what is the square root of 0?"},{"Start":"04:08.540 ","End":"04:11.850","Text":"The square root of 0 is 0."},{"Start":"04:12.770 ","End":"04:19.015","Text":"It\u0027s 20 plus or minus 0 over 8."},{"Start":"04:19.015 ","End":"04:22.190","Text":"Now this 0 is not going to do anything."},{"Start":"04:22.190 ","End":"04:23.900","Text":"If I take 20 plus 0,"},{"Start":"04:23.900 ","End":"04:27.670","Text":"it\u0027s 20, or 20 minus 0 it\u0027s still 20."},{"Start":"04:27.670 ","End":"04:29.870","Text":"This is one of those cases where we don\u0027t have"},{"Start":"04:29.870 ","End":"04:32.705","Text":"a branch because both branches are the same."},{"Start":"04:32.705 ","End":"04:34.585","Text":"It\u0027s 20 over 8."},{"Start":"04:34.585 ","End":"04:38.204","Text":"Adding or subtracting 0 is not going to make any difference."},{"Start":"04:38.204 ","End":"04:43.600","Text":"If I divide 8 into 20 goes twice,"},{"Start":"04:43.600 ","End":"04:47.410","Text":"and then 4/8, 4/8, so it\u0027s just 1/2."},{"Start":"04:47.410 ","End":"04:51.560","Text":"We only have one solution this time."},{"Start":"04:51.560 ","End":"04:56.030","Text":"Remember in the beginning I said that not always have 2 solutions."},{"Start":"04:56.030 ","End":"04:59.075","Text":"Well, here\u0027s one of those cases where although it\u0027s plus or minus,"},{"Start":"04:59.075 ","End":"05:01.715","Text":"we still only have 1 solution."},{"Start":"05:01.715 ","End":"05:03.830","Text":"Now in the next example,"},{"Start":"05:03.830 ","End":"05:06.215","Text":"we\u0027ll see something else that might happen besides"},{"Start":"05:06.215 ","End":"05:09.695","Text":"2 solutions or 1 solution and you\u0027ll see."},{"Start":"05:09.695 ","End":"05:13.055","Text":"Here\u0027s our next example."},{"Start":"05:13.055 ","End":"05:16.760","Text":"5x^2 plus 6x plus 2 equals 0."},{"Start":"05:16.760 ","End":"05:19.530","Text":"As usual, we start off by identifying a,"},{"Start":"05:19.530 ","End":"05:21.795","Text":"b and c. A is 5,"},{"Start":"05:21.795 ","End":"05:25.470","Text":"b is 6, c is 2."},{"Start":"05:25.470 ","End":"05:27.750","Text":"Use the formula."},{"Start":"05:27.750 ","End":"05:34.965","Text":"Minus b is minus 6 plus or minus the square root of b^2,"},{"Start":"05:34.965 ","End":"05:44.910","Text":"6^2 minus 4 times a times c. All this is over 2a,"},{"Start":"05:44.910 ","End":"05:47.835","Text":"which is 2 times 5."},{"Start":"05:47.835 ","End":"05:55.940","Text":"As usual, I like to do what\u0027s under the square root sign at the side. Let\u0027s see."},{"Start":"05:55.940 ","End":"06:03.425","Text":"6^2 is 36 minus 4 times 5 times 2 is 40."},{"Start":"06:03.425 ","End":"06:08.610","Text":"This equals minus 4."},{"Start":"06:08.610 ","End":"06:14.270","Text":"I could try to continue and I could write minus 6 plus or"},{"Start":"06:14.270 ","End":"06:20.725","Text":"minus the square root of minus 4 over 10."},{"Start":"06:20.725 ","End":"06:28.585","Text":"But I\u0027m stuck really because there is no square root of minus 4."},{"Start":"06:28.585 ","End":"06:34.010","Text":"How can a number squared be minus 4 everything squared is 0 or positive,"},{"Start":"06:34.010 ","End":"06:37.490","Text":"I can\u0027t have something times itself being negative."},{"Start":"06:37.490 ","End":"06:43.860","Text":"Because of this, the minus here, that\u0027s a problem."},{"Start":"06:43.860 ","End":"06:46.085","Text":"Then we just say there\u0027s no solution."},{"Start":"06:46.085 ","End":"06:51.500","Text":"There is nothing to solve."},{"Start":"06:51.500 ","End":"06:52.700","Text":"That\u0027s the third case."},{"Start":"06:52.700 ","End":"06:55.040","Text":"We either have 2 solutions."},{"Start":"06:55.040 ","End":"06:58.970","Text":"That\u0027s when this thing under the square root sign is positive."},{"Start":"06:58.970 ","End":"07:03.395","Text":"If it\u0027s 0, we get only one solution and if it\u0027s negative,"},{"Start":"07:03.395 ","End":"07:05.840","Text":"we have no solution has happened here."},{"Start":"07:05.840 ","End":"07:07.850","Text":"No value of x you can put here,"},{"Start":"07:07.850 ","End":"07:09.155","Text":"we\u0027ll make this thing equals 0."},{"Start":"07:09.155 ","End":"07:12.570","Text":"It can happen. We\u0027re done."}],"ID":4985},{"Watched":false,"Name":"Quadratic Equations, Missing C","Duration":"8m 3s","ChapterTopicVideoID":4995,"CourseChapterTopicPlaylistID":56130,"HasSubtitles":true,"ThumbnailPath":"https://www.proprep.com/Images/Videos_Thumbnails/4995.jpeg","UploadDate":"2020-09-30T08:06:57.7770000","DurationForVideoObject":"PT8M3S","Description":null,"VideoComments":[],"Subtitles":[{"Start":"00:00.000 ","End":"00:05.080","Text":"I\u0027m continuing with quadratic equations and I forgot to clean the board from last time,"},{"Start":"00:05.080 ","End":"00:10.730","Text":"so mostly clean and let me just clean this bit also."},{"Start":"00:10.730 ","End":"00:13.390","Text":"This is going to be the topic for today."},{"Start":"00:13.390 ","End":"00:19.580","Text":"What happens when we have a missing term in this case where we have the missing c?"},{"Start":"00:19.940 ","End":"00:23.260","Text":"I added that to the title missing c,"},{"Start":"00:23.260 ","End":"00:25.810","Text":"that\u0027s the c from here."},{"Start":"00:25.810 ","End":"00:27.625","Text":"You could say it\u0027s missing,"},{"Start":"00:27.625 ","End":"00:29.980","Text":"or you could say that c is 0."},{"Start":"00:29.980 ","End":"00:35.660","Text":"I could write this as plus 0,"},{"Start":"00:35.660 ","End":"00:37.945","Text":"but that\u0027s not necessary."},{"Start":"00:37.945 ","End":"00:42.465","Text":"Now, there\u0027s a way of solving this which doesn\u0027t use the formula."},{"Start":"00:42.465 ","End":"00:44.945","Text":"You can still use the formula and, in fact, you know what?"},{"Start":"00:44.945 ","End":"00:48.545","Text":"I\u0027m going to start by using the formula and then I\u0027ll show you the shorter way."},{"Start":"00:48.545 ","End":"00:50.554","Text":"If I use the formula,"},{"Start":"00:50.554 ","End":"00:56.410","Text":"then I identify a=1, b=2."},{"Start":"00:56.410 ","End":"01:00.185","Text":"I deliberately erase that,"},{"Start":"01:00.185 ","End":"01:03.490","Text":"because you can imagine that c=0."},{"Start":"01:03.490 ","End":"01:05.000","Text":"If you were given the question,"},{"Start":"01:05.000 ","End":"01:06.500","Text":"they wouldn\u0027t write plus 0."},{"Start":"01:06.500 ","End":"01:08.210","Text":"But we would know that if it\u0027s missing,"},{"Start":"01:08.210 ","End":"01:10.610","Text":"it\u0027s like having c=0."},{"Start":"01:10.610 ","End":"01:12.895","Text":"Then we use the formula."},{"Start":"01:12.895 ","End":"01:15.900","Text":"We get x=minus b,"},{"Start":"01:15.900 ","End":"01:25.915","Text":"it\u0027s minus 2 plus or minus the square root of b^2 is 2^2 minus 4 times a times c,"},{"Start":"01:25.915 ","End":"01:30.775","Text":"all over 2a, 2 times 1."},{"Start":"01:30.775 ","End":"01:34.205","Text":"Now notice that anything multiplied by 0 is 0."},{"Start":"01:34.205 ","End":"01:36.710","Text":"It\u0027s as if this whole thing that I\u0027ve just"},{"Start":"01:36.710 ","End":"01:41.090","Text":"highlighted is not there because this is all 0."},{"Start":"01:41.090 ","End":"01:48.180","Text":"What we get is that x is equal to minus 2 plus or minus."},{"Start":"01:49.690 ","End":"01:52.745","Text":"I\u0027ll just write it over here."},{"Start":"01:52.745 ","End":"01:56.325","Text":"The square root of 2^2 squared is just 2."},{"Start":"01:56.325 ","End":"01:59.085","Text":"In fact, the square root of anything squared is just that anything,"},{"Start":"01:59.085 ","End":"02:00.945","Text":"I\u0027m assuming it\u0027s positive."},{"Start":"02:00.945 ","End":"02:08.745","Text":"What we get is minus 2 plus or minus 2 over 2 times 1 is 2."},{"Start":"02:08.745 ","End":"02:10.310","Text":"As usual, we take the 2 roots."},{"Start":"02:10.310 ","End":"02:13.265","Text":"We take the plus and we take the minus."},{"Start":"02:13.265 ","End":"02:16.730","Text":"If we take the plus, minus 2 plus 2 is 0."},{"Start":"02:16.730 ","End":"02:19.460","Text":"0 over 2 is 0."},{"Start":"02:19.460 ","End":"02:21.410","Text":"If we take the minus root,"},{"Start":"02:21.410 ","End":"02:27.105","Text":"we\u0027ve got minus 2 minus 2 over 2 we get minus 4 over 2,"},{"Start":"02:27.105 ","End":"02:29.305","Text":"which is minus 2."},{"Start":"02:29.305 ","End":"02:33.770","Text":"These are my 2 solutions using the formula."},{"Start":"02:33.770 ","End":"02:37.585","Text":"Now let\u0027s try it the other way, the new way."},{"Start":"02:37.585 ","End":"02:40.550","Text":"Now, if the c term is missing,"},{"Start":"02:40.550 ","End":"02:43.175","Text":"it means that every term contains x,"},{"Start":"02:43.175 ","End":"02:46.040","Text":"which means that I can take x outside the brackets."},{"Start":"02:46.040 ","End":"02:48.365","Text":"Let me continue over here."},{"Start":"02:48.365 ","End":"02:51.996","Text":"If I factorize it and take x out the brackets,"},{"Start":"02:51.996 ","End":"02:58.055","Text":"I\u0027ve got x times x plus 2 equals 0."},{"Start":"02:58.055 ","End":"03:02.210","Text":"Now there\u0027s an important thing about when a product is equal to 0."},{"Start":"03:02.210 ","End":"03:03.620","Text":"It doesn\u0027t happen for other numbers,"},{"Start":"03:03.620 ","End":"03:05.000","Text":"but for 0 it works."},{"Start":"03:05.000 ","End":"03:07.025","Text":"If I have 2 numbers,"},{"Start":"03:07.025 ","End":"03:10.090","Text":"I don\u0027t want to use a and b,"},{"Start":"03:10.090 ","End":"03:15.470","Text":"say u and v. If I have 2 numbers that the product is 0,"},{"Start":"03:15.470 ","End":"03:18.695","Text":"the only way this can happen is that one or the other is 0."},{"Start":"03:18.695 ","End":"03:21.350","Text":"Because if I have a non-zero number times a non-zero number,"},{"Start":"03:21.350 ","End":"03:23.090","Text":"it will also give me a non-zero number."},{"Start":"03:23.090 ","End":"03:28.100","Text":"The only way I can multiply and get 0 is if one of them is 0,"},{"Start":"03:28.100 ","End":"03:31.800","Text":"that means that u is 0 or v is 0."},{"Start":"03:31.800 ","End":"03:34.220","Text":"One or the other or both I suppose,"},{"Start":"03:34.220 ","End":"03:37.025","Text":"but at least one of them has to be 0."},{"Start":"03:37.025 ","End":"03:39.650","Text":"In this case, I have a product which is 0."},{"Start":"03:39.650 ","End":"03:43.775","Text":"Using this logic, either x is 0."},{"Start":"03:43.775 ","End":"03:46.160","Text":"That could happen if x was 0."},{"Start":"03:46.160 ","End":"03:49.384","Text":"Could also happen if x plus 2 was 0."},{"Start":"03:49.384 ","End":"03:51.815","Text":"What would make x plus 2 0?"},{"Start":"03:51.815 ","End":"03:55.015","Text":"X would equal minus 2."},{"Start":"03:55.015 ","End":"03:57.365","Text":"If I highlight it,"},{"Start":"03:57.365 ","End":"04:02.720","Text":"you\u0027ll see we got exactly the same solution as we did with the formula,"},{"Start":"04:02.720 ","End":"04:05.015","Text":"but a little bit less work."},{"Start":"04:05.015 ","End":"04:07.805","Text":"I\u0027m just showing you that this is possible."},{"Start":"04:07.805 ","End":"04:12.590","Text":"Let\u0027s do another example or 2 of this kind."},{"Start":"04:12.590 ","End":"04:15.260","Text":"Let\u0027s see let\u0027s change the previous example."},{"Start":"04:15.260 ","End":"04:21.390","Text":"I\u0027ll make it minus 5x^2 plus 15x equals 0."},{"Start":"04:21.390 ","End":"04:26.749","Text":"I deliberately left a bit of a blank here just to remind us that something is missing."},{"Start":"04:26.749 ","End":"04:28.475","Text":"Let\u0027s do it again."},{"Start":"04:28.475 ","End":"04:30.215","Text":"Not with the formula,"},{"Start":"04:30.215 ","End":"04:33.530","Text":"but with the shortcut way I just showed you."},{"Start":"04:33.530 ","End":"04:37.950","Text":"We take x out the brackets."},{"Start":"04:39.000 ","End":"04:46.000","Text":"But I\u0027d like to point out if we can do better than just taking x out, we should."},{"Start":"04:46.000 ","End":"04:50.505","Text":"For example, I noticed that 5 also goes into both of these."},{"Start":"04:50.505 ","End":"04:54.790","Text":"So it\u0027s quicker, it\u0027s better if you take the 5 out also."},{"Start":"04:54.790 ","End":"04:58.435","Text":"I\u0027m going to take 5 and x outside the brackets."},{"Start":"04:58.435 ","End":"05:00.250","Text":"What are we left with?"},{"Start":"05:00.250 ","End":"05:05.475","Text":"5 into minus 5 goes minus 1 time,"},{"Start":"05:05.475 ","End":"05:10.300","Text":"x into x^2 goes x times minus 1x,"},{"Start":"05:10.300 ","End":"05:13.770","Text":"and then 5x into 15x,"},{"Start":"05:13.770 ","End":"05:15.430","Text":"it goes 3 times."},{"Start":"05:15.430 ","End":"05:20.155","Text":"You can easily see that is equal to 0."},{"Start":"05:20.155 ","End":"05:26.590","Text":"Let me just drop the one part of the minus 1 anyway."},{"Start":"05:28.040 ","End":"05:31.970","Text":"Before we do this trick of product is 0,"},{"Start":"05:31.970 ","End":"05:34.250","Text":"we can actually cancel by 5."},{"Start":"05:34.250 ","End":"05:37.025","Text":"It\u0027s something worth doing because when you have a 0 here,"},{"Start":"05:37.025 ","End":"05:41.250","Text":"you can pretty much divide by anything that\u0027s not 0."},{"Start":"05:41.260 ","End":"05:45.260","Text":"In practice, I just put a line through it and say it\u0027s gone."},{"Start":"05:45.260 ","End":"05:50.030","Text":"But the justification is that I\u0027ve divided both sides by 5,"},{"Start":"05:50.030 ","End":"05:53.150","Text":"and I know that 0 divided by anything is 0."},{"Start":"05:53.150 ","End":"05:55.750","Text":"It\u0027s just like throwing the 5 away."},{"Start":"05:55.750 ","End":"05:58.610","Text":"I can\u0027t throw the x away because it could be 0."},{"Start":"05:58.610 ","End":"06:00.020","Text":"You can\u0027t divide by 0,"},{"Start":"06:00.020 ","End":"06:01.130","Text":"but if it\u0027s a number,"},{"Start":"06:01.130 ","End":"06:03.595","Text":"not 0, you can just throw it out."},{"Start":"06:03.595 ","End":"06:08.555","Text":"Now we have this same dichotomy or choice of 2,"},{"Start":"06:08.555 ","End":"06:12.935","Text":"product is 0, so one or the other has to be 0."},{"Start":"06:12.935 ","End":"06:22.299","Text":"We say that either x is 0 or that minus x plus 3 is 0."},{"Start":"06:23.230 ","End":"06:27.110","Text":"You can easily see that the solution to this is x equals 3."},{"Start":"06:27.110 ","End":"06:30.180","Text":"The only number that I can put here would be 3,"},{"Start":"06:30.180 ","End":"06:33.570","Text":"or you could solve it the long way."},{"Start":"06:33.570 ","End":"06:37.610","Text":"X is 3. These are the 2 solutions."},{"Start":"06:37.610 ","End":"06:42.970","Text":"X is 0 or x is 3 and that\u0027s all there is to it."},{"Start":"06:42.970 ","End":"06:49.315","Text":"Of course, you can check by substituting and 0 is always a solution in"},{"Start":"06:49.315 ","End":"06:56.850","Text":"this equation with missing c. Let me just do one more quick one."},{"Start":"06:56.850 ","End":"07:01.755","Text":"3x^2 minus 2x equals 0."},{"Start":"07:01.755 ","End":"07:06.735","Text":"Left a bit of space there just to remind us again that the c is missing."},{"Start":"07:06.735 ","End":"07:08.485","Text":"Not going to do it with the formula,"},{"Start":"07:08.485 ","End":"07:10.075","Text":"going to do it with the short way."},{"Start":"07:10.075 ","End":"07:12.550","Text":"We\u0027ll take x outside the brackets."},{"Start":"07:12.550 ","End":"07:14.230","Text":"But I can\u0027t do any better than that."},{"Start":"07:14.230 ","End":"07:15.915","Text":"Here, I could take a 5 out of both."},{"Start":"07:15.915 ","End":"07:18.115","Text":"Here, I don\u0027t see I can do any better."},{"Start":"07:18.115 ","End":"07:21.235","Text":"So we take out x and we\u0027re left with 3,"},{"Start":"07:21.235 ","End":"07:25.710","Text":"and then x minus 2 from here equals 0."},{"Start":"07:25.710 ","End":"07:29.480","Text":"Once again, we\u0027re in the situation that the product is 0,"},{"Start":"07:29.480 ","End":"07:31.910","Text":"so one or the other factors has to be 0."},{"Start":"07:31.910 ","End":"07:39.430","Text":"So x=0, or 3x minus 2 equals 0."},{"Start":"07:39.430 ","End":"07:41.810","Text":"For the other case, bring the 2 over to the other side,"},{"Start":"07:41.810 ","End":"07:45.080","Text":"divide by 3 x is 2/3,"},{"Start":"07:45.080 ","End":"07:49.365","Text":"and so our 2 solutions are 0 and 2/3."},{"Start":"07:49.365 ","End":"07:52.140","Text":"Like I said, in this situation with missing c,"},{"Start":"07:52.140 ","End":"07:56.885","Text":"you always get 0s in one of the solutions that\u0027s a check that something is going right."},{"Start":"07:56.885 ","End":"08:03.180","Text":"Done with missing c. Next chapter, missing b."}],"ID":4986},{"Watched":false,"Name":"Quadratic Equations, Missing B","Duration":"8m 2s","ChapterTopicVideoID":4994,"CourseChapterTopicPlaylistID":56130,"HasSubtitles":true,"ThumbnailPath":"https://www.proprep.com/Images/Videos_Thumbnails/4994.jpeg","UploadDate":"2020-09-30T08:04:35.5000000","DurationForVideoObject":"PT8M2S","Description":null,"VideoComments":[],"Subtitles":[{"Start":"00:00.000 ","End":"00:02.670","Text":"Continuing with quadratic equations,"},{"Start":"00:02.670 ","End":"00:06.285","Text":"in the previous clip we had what we called missing c,"},{"Start":"00:06.285 ","End":"00:08.610","Text":"means that this thing was missing."},{"Start":"00:08.610 ","End":"00:12.585","Text":"This time we\u0027re going to take the case of a missing b."},{"Start":"00:12.585 ","End":"00:17.370","Text":"Notice that in the example I deliberately left a gap here to show"},{"Start":"00:17.370 ","End":"00:22.575","Text":"us that the bx part is missing."},{"Start":"00:22.575 ","End":"00:26.340","Text":"You could say it\u0027s missing or you could say b equals 0."},{"Start":"00:26.340 ","End":"00:28.360","Text":"It doesn\u0027t really matter."},{"Start":"00:28.360 ","End":"00:30.920","Text":"As in the case of missing c,"},{"Start":"00:30.920 ","End":"00:32.630","Text":"we could still use the formula,"},{"Start":"00:32.630 ","End":"00:34.160","Text":"but there was a shortcut way,"},{"Start":"00:34.160 ","End":"00:35.525","Text":"and that\u0027s the same here."},{"Start":"00:35.525 ","End":"00:38.495","Text":"First of all, I\u0027ll show you that the formula won\u0027t fail you."},{"Start":"00:38.495 ","End":"00:44.210","Text":"It might not be the easiest way to solve the problem but it will work."},{"Start":"00:44.210 ","End":"00:46.775","Text":"Let\u0027s do that first."},{"Start":"00:46.775 ","End":"00:53.040","Text":"As usual the first step is to identify the coefficients a,"},{"Start":"00:53.040 ","End":"00:57.295","Text":"b, and c. a equals 1 because this is 1x^2."},{"Start":"00:57.295 ","End":"01:00.440","Text":"Here\u0027s the thing, b equals 0,"},{"Start":"01:00.440 ","End":"01:03.605","Text":"because now I can imagine it\u0027s plus 0x,"},{"Start":"01:03.605 ","End":"01:05.760","Text":"but I don\u0027t have to write it,"},{"Start":"01:05.760 ","End":"01:09.740","Text":"and c is minus 25."},{"Start":"01:09.740 ","End":"01:13.721","Text":"Then I put it in the formula and we get minus b,"},{"Start":"01:13.721 ","End":"01:17.900","Text":"so that\u0027s minus 0 plus or minus"},{"Start":"01:17.900 ","End":"01:24.770","Text":"the square root of b^2 minus 4ac,"},{"Start":"01:24.770 ","End":"01:33.815","Text":"4 times 1 times minus 25 over 2a,"},{"Start":"01:33.815 ","End":"01:38.570","Text":"over 2 times 1 is a."},{"Start":"01:38.570 ","End":"01:41.930","Text":"Let me compute this bit at the side."},{"Start":"01:41.930 ","End":"01:47.360","Text":"What we have under the square root sign is 0^2 is 0 minus,"},{"Start":"01:47.360 ","End":"01:48.410","Text":"it\u0027s going to be a negative,"},{"Start":"01:48.410 ","End":"01:52.645","Text":"it\u0027s going to be plus 4 times 25 is 100."},{"Start":"01:52.645 ","End":"01:56.255","Text":"That\u0027s 100. Back here,"},{"Start":"01:56.255 ","End":"02:01.070","Text":"I don\u0027t have to write minus 0 or plus 0 or anything times 0 because that\u0027s just a 0."},{"Start":"02:01.070 ","End":"02:07.875","Text":"What we have is plus or minus the square root of 100 over,"},{"Start":"02:07.875 ","End":"02:10.325","Text":"2 times 1 is 2."},{"Start":"02:10.325 ","End":"02:12.650","Text":"If I take the plus,"},{"Start":"02:12.650 ","End":"02:14.210","Text":"square root of 100 is 10,"},{"Start":"02:14.210 ","End":"02:19.370","Text":"of course, so I get 10 over 2, which is 5."},{"Start":"02:19.370 ","End":"02:21.259","Text":"If I take the minus,"},{"Start":"02:21.259 ","End":"02:24.035","Text":"I\u0027ve got minus 10 over 2,"},{"Start":"02:24.035 ","End":"02:26.440","Text":"which is minus 5,"},{"Start":"02:26.440 ","End":"02:28.770","Text":"and these are my 2 solutions,"},{"Start":"02:28.770 ","End":"02:30.955","Text":"5 and minus 5."},{"Start":"02:30.955 ","End":"02:35.870","Text":"But like I said in a special case we don\u0027t have to use the formula,"},{"Start":"02:35.870 ","End":"02:38.020","Text":"let\u0027s do it another way."},{"Start":"02:38.020 ","End":"02:45.045","Text":"I\u0027m going to start again with x^2 minus 25 equals 0."},{"Start":"02:45.045 ","End":"02:53.600","Text":"Then I\u0027m going to bring the 25 to the other side and get x^2 equals 25."},{"Start":"02:53.600 ","End":"02:58.505","Text":"Now, I want to know what number squared is 25."},{"Start":"02:58.505 ","End":"03:00.440","Text":"You might say, well,"},{"Start":"03:00.440 ","End":"03:05.495","Text":"x equals 5 will do it because 5^2 is 25."},{"Start":"03:05.495 ","End":"03:14.650","Text":"But the thing is that that\u0027s not the only possibility because minus 5^2 is also 25."},{"Start":"03:14.650 ","End":"03:17.405","Text":"When we take the square root,"},{"Start":"03:17.405 ","End":"03:23.180","Text":"basically what we did was 5 is the square root of 25."},{"Start":"03:23.180 ","End":"03:25.303","Text":"That\u0027s what we did to get from here to here,"},{"Start":"03:25.303 ","End":"03:28.490","Text":"but at the end we really have to say this is not good enough,"},{"Start":"03:28.490 ","End":"03:32.330","Text":"x is plus or minus 5,"},{"Start":"03:32.330 ","End":"03:38.135","Text":"or plus or minus a square root of 25 and that gives us the answer straightaway."},{"Start":"03:38.135 ","End":"03:41.750","Text":"Of course, I can write it as 5 and minus 5,"},{"Start":"03:41.750 ","End":"03:46.400","Text":"but it\u0027s fine just to leave it as plus or minus 5."},{"Start":"03:46.400 ","End":"03:48.710","Text":"There is actually a third way,"},{"Start":"03:48.710 ","End":"03:50.030","Text":"this is entirely optional."},{"Start":"03:50.030 ","End":"03:54.440","Text":"I suggest you skip this bit if you don\u0027t care about the third way."},{"Start":"03:54.440 ","End":"04:00.830","Text":"But the third way is to write the x^2 minus 25 as x^2 minus 5 squared."},{"Start":"04:00.830 ","End":"04:02.945","Text":"After all, 25 is 5 squared,"},{"Start":"04:02.945 ","End":"04:05.105","Text":"and to say that this equals 0."},{"Start":"04:05.105 ","End":"04:12.200","Text":"Then remember the difference of squares formula that a^2 minus b^2 in general,"},{"Start":"04:12.200 ","End":"04:14.060","Text":"not this a and b here,"},{"Start":"04:14.060 ","End":"04:18.210","Text":"is a plus b, a minus b."},{"Start":"04:18.210 ","End":"04:22.290","Text":"Applying it in our case we get x plus 5,"},{"Start":"04:22.290 ","End":"04:25.430","Text":"x minus 5 equals 0."},{"Start":"04:25.430 ","End":"04:27.385","Text":"When we have a product as 0,"},{"Start":"04:27.385 ","End":"04:29.545","Text":"one or the other has to be 0."},{"Start":"04:29.545 ","End":"04:35.375","Text":"Either x plus 5 is 0 or x minus 5 is 0."},{"Start":"04:35.375 ","End":"04:38.480","Text":"This one gives us x equals minus 5,"},{"Start":"04:38.480 ","End":"04:42.425","Text":"and this one gives us x equals 5 or plus 5."},{"Start":"04:42.425 ","End":"04:44.390","Text":"Again, we get the same answer,"},{"Start":"04:44.390 ","End":"04:45.515","Text":"plus or minus 5."},{"Start":"04:45.515 ","End":"04:49.480","Text":"This is optional. Now I\u0027m going to do another example."},{"Start":"04:49.480 ","End":"04:52.345","Text":"Here is our next example,"},{"Start":"04:52.345 ","End":"04:55.695","Text":"18x^2 minus 8 equals 0."},{"Start":"04:55.695 ","End":"04:59.855","Text":"Again, I left a bit of a blank here to show that there\u0027s a missing b."},{"Start":"04:59.855 ","End":"05:07.085","Text":"But before I do this I\u0027d like to slightly revise the solution to the previous exercise."},{"Start":"05:07.085 ","End":"05:09.080","Text":"I did it for the first time and there was"},{"Start":"05:09.080 ","End":"05:11.930","Text":"too much explanation in it I wanted to get it more technical,"},{"Start":"05:11.930 ","End":"05:18.965","Text":"so I\u0027m going to erase part of it and show you how we would do it more technically."},{"Start":"05:18.965 ","End":"05:23.735","Text":"Here, we would bring the 25 over to the other side as before."},{"Start":"05:23.735 ","End":"05:28.145","Text":"Then, whenever I have x^2 equals something,"},{"Start":"05:28.145 ","End":"05:35.015","Text":"I immediately write x equals plus or minus the square root of what\u0027s written here."},{"Start":"05:35.015 ","End":"05:41.770","Text":"Then I\u0027d say, the square root of 25 is 5 so x equals plus or minus 5."},{"Start":"05:41.770 ","End":"05:44.535","Text":"That\u0027s the bare bones without the explanations,"},{"Start":"05:44.535 ","End":"05:48.035","Text":"and that\u0027s what we need really for solving this one."},{"Start":"05:48.035 ","End":"05:50.060","Text":"But in this one there is a slight difference."},{"Start":"05:50.060 ","End":"05:55.320","Text":"Here, it didn\u0027t have anything in front of the x^2 or more correctly I had 1x^2."},{"Start":"05:55.320 ","End":"05:56.760","Text":"Here I have 18x^2."},{"Start":"05:56.760 ","End":"05:59.170","Text":"Let\u0027s see how that affects things."},{"Start":"05:59.170 ","End":"06:03.380","Text":"Now, as before I bring the number to the other side."},{"Start":"06:03.380 ","End":"06:09.905","Text":"I\u0027ve got 18x^2 equals 0 plus 8, is 8."},{"Start":"06:09.905 ","End":"06:12.575","Text":"But because I don\u0027t have 1x^2,"},{"Start":"06:12.575 ","End":"06:14.900","Text":"no problem I\u0027ll just divide by 18."},{"Start":"06:14.900 ","End":"06:19.235","Text":"I\u0027m dividing both sides by the 18,"},{"Start":"06:19.235 ","End":"06:23.750","Text":"and I\u0027ll get 18x^2 over 18 is x^2,"},{"Start":"06:23.750 ","End":"06:27.860","Text":"and here I get 8 over 18."},{"Start":"06:27.860 ","End":"06:31.055","Text":"Let\u0027s reduce this fraction."},{"Start":"06:31.055 ","End":"06:34.970","Text":"I see that both numerator and denominator are divisible by 2,"},{"Start":"06:34.970 ","End":"06:36.635","Text":"so if I take out 2,"},{"Start":"06:36.635 ","End":"06:39.790","Text":"I\u0027ll get 4 here and 9 here."},{"Start":"06:39.790 ","End":"06:44.680","Text":"What we have is x^2 equals 4/9."},{"Start":"06:44.720 ","End":"06:47.270","Text":"Then like we did here,"},{"Start":"06:47.270 ","End":"06:53.250","Text":"we say x equals plus or minus the square root of 4/9."},{"Start":"06:53.590 ","End":"06:59.240","Text":"Now if you remember, when we take the square root or an exponent of a fraction,"},{"Start":"06:59.240 ","End":"07:02.915","Text":"we do it separately for the numerator and denominator."},{"Start":"07:02.915 ","End":"07:09.705","Text":"It\u0027s plus or minus the square root of 4 over the square root of 9."},{"Start":"07:09.705 ","End":"07:12.720","Text":"Square root of 4 is 2,"},{"Start":"07:12.720 ","End":"07:14.355","Text":"2 times 2 is 4."},{"Start":"07:14.355 ","End":"07:17.460","Text":"The square root of 9 is 3 because 3 times 3 is 9."},{"Start":"07:17.460 ","End":"07:21.885","Text":"This is plus or minus 2 over 3."},{"Start":"07:21.885 ","End":"07:23.610","Text":"These are 2 answers."},{"Start":"07:23.610 ","End":"07:25.365","Text":"I could write it as 2/3,"},{"Start":"07:25.365 ","End":"07:26.710","Text":"and minus 2/3,"},{"Start":"07:26.710 ","End":"07:30.050","Text":"but it\u0027s acceptable to leave it like this."},{"Start":"07:30.050 ","End":"07:34.910","Text":"There we are ready for maybe one more example."},{"Start":"07:34.910 ","End":"07:37.400","Text":"No, I think we\u0027re done."},{"Start":"07:37.400 ","End":"07:40.190","Text":"This is enough. I just want to point out one thing."},{"Start":"07:40.190 ","End":"07:41.585","Text":"You might wonder,"},{"Start":"07:41.585 ","End":"07:47.395","Text":"we had a section on missing c and then we had missing b,"},{"Start":"07:47.395 ","End":"07:49.265","Text":"what about missing a?"},{"Start":"07:49.265 ","End":"07:51.920","Text":"Well, remember, we can\u0027t have a missing"},{"Start":"07:51.920 ","End":"07:55.735","Text":"a because if a is missing it\u0027s not a quadratic equation."},{"Start":"07:55.735 ","End":"07:57.890","Text":"These are the 2 special cases,"},{"Start":"07:57.890 ","End":"07:59.480","Text":"missing c and missing b,"},{"Start":"07:59.480 ","End":"08:03.360","Text":"and we\u0027re done with this clip."}],"ID":4987},{"Watched":false,"Name":"Exercise 1","Duration":"2m 38s","ChapterTopicVideoID":4984,"CourseChapterTopicPlaylistID":56130,"HasSubtitles":true,"ThumbnailPath":"https://www.proprep.com/Images/Videos_Thumbnails/4984.jpeg","UploadDate":"2016-02-11T16:53:02.0470000","DurationForVideoObject":"PT2M38S","Description":null,"VideoComments":[],"Subtitles":[{"Start":"00:00.000 ","End":"00:03.509","Text":"Here we have to solve this equation,"},{"Start":"00:03.509 ","End":"00:07.155","Text":"and this is a quadratic equation because of the x^2."},{"Start":"00:07.155 ","End":"00:11.145","Text":"Now, of course, we can always use the quadratic formula,"},{"Start":"00:11.145 ","End":"00:13.980","Text":"but in this case, it\u0027s not necessary."},{"Start":"00:13.980 ","End":"00:17.850","Text":"I\u0027ll show you a simple way of solving this."},{"Start":"00:17.850 ","End":"00:20.550","Text":"In fact, I might even show you two ways."},{"Start":"00:20.550 ","End":"00:28.590","Text":"One way is just to bring the 36 over to the other side. x^2 = 36."},{"Start":"00:28.590 ","End":"00:33.060","Text":"Then you might say, well, if something squared is 36,"},{"Start":"00:33.060 ","End":"00:40.170","Text":"this is going to be the square root of 36 and that\u0027s almost right."},{"Start":"00:40.170 ","End":"00:43.270","Text":"Then you would say that is equal to 6."},{"Start":"00:43.270 ","End":"00:45.590","Text":"The reason I say, almost right,"},{"Start":"00:45.590 ","End":"00:50.570","Text":"is because it could be plus or it could be minus, which is sometimes right."},{"Start":"00:50.570 ","End":"00:54.875","Text":"We usually write plus or minus in mathematics and as this symbol."},{"Start":"00:54.875 ","End":"00:57.445","Text":"So x is plus or minus 6."},{"Start":"00:57.445 ","End":"01:01.760","Text":"There is two possibilities because 6^2 is 36,"},{"Start":"01:01.760 ","End":"01:05.180","Text":"whereas minus -6 if you square that minus"},{"Start":"01:05.180 ","End":"01:08.615","Text":"times minus is plus so there\u0027s really two solutions,"},{"Start":"01:08.615 ","End":"01:16.480","Text":"so x could say is equal to either 6 or -6."},{"Start":"01:16.480 ","End":"01:19.790","Text":"Now, there\u0027s another way of doing this."},{"Start":"01:19.790 ","End":"01:22.175","Text":"One way, the other way of doing it,"},{"Start":"01:22.175 ","End":"01:23.690","Text":"I\u0027m just showing you,"},{"Start":"01:23.690 ","End":"01:29.600","Text":"whether I\u0027ll probably use this method is to say this is x^2 -"},{"Start":"01:29.600 ","End":"01:36.290","Text":"6^2= 0 because we straight away see that 36 is 6 squared."},{"Start":"01:36.290 ","End":"01:43.235","Text":"Then we use the formula of difference of squares and we get the sum times the difference,"},{"Start":"01:43.235 ","End":"01:49.565","Text":"(x + 6)( x - 6) = 0."},{"Start":"01:49.565 ","End":"01:51.470","Text":"Then you figure like this."},{"Start":"01:51.470 ","End":"01:55.129","Text":"How can you multiply two numbers together to get 0?"},{"Start":"01:55.129 ","End":"01:57.920","Text":"Has to be that one of them is 0,"},{"Start":"01:57.920 ","End":"02:06.795","Text":"so either this is 0 or this thing is equal to 0."},{"Start":"02:06.795 ","End":"02:15.550","Text":"In one case you get x + 6 is 0 so x is minus 6."},{"Start":"02:15.550 ","End":"02:17.195","Text":"In the other case,"},{"Start":"02:17.195 ","End":"02:20.120","Text":"you get that x minus 6 is 0,"},{"Start":"02:20.120 ","End":"02:22.760","Text":"in which case x = 6."},{"Start":"02:22.760 ","End":"02:26.100","Text":"Again, we get the two solutions."},{"Start":"02:26.330 ","End":"02:30.470","Text":"This is neat, but this is shorter and simpler."},{"Start":"02:30.470 ","End":"02:37.950","Text":"We\u0027ll go with this method in future exercises. That\u0027s it."}],"ID":4988},{"Watched":false,"Name":"Exercise 2","Duration":"1m 42s","ChapterTopicVideoID":4985,"CourseChapterTopicPlaylistID":56130,"HasSubtitles":true,"ThumbnailPath":"https://www.proprep.com/Images/Videos_Thumbnails/4985.jpeg","UploadDate":"2016-02-11T16:53:19.7300000","DurationForVideoObject":"PT1M42S","Description":null,"VideoComments":[],"Subtitles":[{"Start":"00:00.000 ","End":"00:02.880","Text":"Here we have to solve this equation."},{"Start":"00:02.880 ","End":"00:06.570","Text":"It\u0027s a quadratic equation because of the x^2."},{"Start":"00:06.570 ","End":"00:11.955","Text":"Let\u0027s see, 32x^2-18=0."},{"Start":"00:11.955 ","End":"00:14.445","Text":"Because of the missing x term,"},{"Start":"00:14.445 ","End":"00:23.130","Text":"the easiest thing to do is bring the number over to the other side and say, 32x^2=18."},{"Start":"00:23.130 ","End":"00:24.660","Text":"Let\u0027s see if we can cancel."},{"Start":"00:24.660 ","End":"00:33.990","Text":"Yeah, 2 will go into both of them, so 16x^2=9."},{"Start":"00:33.990 ","End":"00:42.090","Text":"Now, I can say that x^2=9/16,"},{"Start":"00:42.090 ","End":"00:45.074","Text":"I\u0027ll bring the 16 to the other side."},{"Start":"00:45.074 ","End":"00:51.045","Text":"This works out nicely because 9 is 3^2 and 16 is 4^2."},{"Start":"00:51.045 ","End":"00:59.880","Text":"Notice that this is equal to (3/4)^2."},{"Start":"00:59.880 ","End":"01:03.290","Text":"You might be tempted to say that x is equal to"},{"Start":"01:03.290 ","End":"01:09.425","Text":"3/4 because (3/4)^2 is 9/16 and you\u0027d be partly right."},{"Start":"01:09.425 ","End":"01:14.570","Text":"In fact, we have to take the plus or the minus."},{"Start":"01:14.570 ","End":"01:16.790","Text":"Just make a small correction."},{"Start":"01:16.790 ","End":"01:21.065","Text":"It\u0027s plus or minus 3/4 because both of them,"},{"Start":"01:21.065 ","End":"01:23.790","Text":"when squared, will give you 9/16."},{"Start":"01:23.790 ","End":"01:27.335","Text":"The plus or the minus as minus times minus is plus."},{"Start":"01:27.335 ","End":"01:30.355","Text":"You could leave it like this or you could say"},{"Start":"01:30.355 ","End":"01:36.480","Text":"that x=3/4 or minus"},{"Start":"01:36.480 ","End":"01:42.570","Text":"3/4 in case you don\u0027t like this symbol for the plus or minus. That\u0027s it."}],"ID":4989},{"Watched":false,"Name":"Exercise 3","Duration":"1m 58s","ChapterTopicVideoID":4986,"CourseChapterTopicPlaylistID":56130,"HasSubtitles":true,"ThumbnailPath":"https://www.proprep.com/Images/Videos_Thumbnails/4986.jpeg","UploadDate":"2016-02-11T16:53:39.8600000","DurationForVideoObject":"PT1M58S","Description":null,"VideoComments":[],"Subtitles":[{"Start":"00:00.000 ","End":"00:03.990","Text":"In this exercise, we have to solve this equation."},{"Start":"00:03.990 ","End":"00:08.220","Text":"It\u0027s a quadratic equation because of the x^2."},{"Start":"00:08.220 ","End":"00:12.660","Text":"But notice that there\u0027s no constant term, in general,"},{"Start":"00:12.660 ","End":"00:15.560","Text":"a quadratic equation is ax^2+bx+c,"},{"Start":"00:15.560 ","End":"00:17.115","Text":"but here, the c is missing,"},{"Start":"00:17.115 ","End":"00:19.785","Text":"so we don\u0027t use the formula."},{"Start":"00:19.785 ","End":"00:22.930","Text":"We use other techniques."},{"Start":"00:27.110 ","End":"00:29.415","Text":"Let\u0027s put it another way."},{"Start":"00:29.415 ","End":"00:34.859","Text":"I can cancel. I can reduce this by minus 7 in this case,"},{"Start":"00:34.859 ","End":"00:36.480","Text":"because it goes into both."},{"Start":"00:36.480 ","End":"00:40.425","Text":"So if I divide the whole thing by minus 7,"},{"Start":"00:40.425 ","End":"00:45.090","Text":"I get x^2,"},{"Start":"00:45.090 ","End":"00:48.450","Text":"and minus 14 over minus 7 is 2,"},{"Start":"00:48.450 ","End":"00:52.720","Text":"and 0 over minus 7 is still 0."},{"Start":"00:52.720 ","End":"00:55.775","Text":"Now you\u0027re allowed to divide both sides of an equation by 7,"},{"Start":"00:55.775 ","End":"00:57.935","Text":"so this is what we get."},{"Start":"00:57.935 ","End":"01:00.785","Text":"In this case, we can factorize."},{"Start":"01:00.785 ","End":"01:08.195","Text":"We can take x outside the brackets and what we\u0027re left with is x plus 2."},{"Start":"01:08.195 ","End":"01:11.690","Text":"If you\u0027re not sure, you can multiply it back out, expand,"},{"Start":"01:11.690 ","End":"01:13.295","Text":"x times x is x^2,"},{"Start":"01:13.295 ","End":"01:17.360","Text":"x times 2 is 2x. This is equal to 0."},{"Start":"01:17.360 ","End":"01:21.515","Text":"Now, if you multiply 2 numbers together and get 0,"},{"Start":"01:21.515 ","End":"01:24.155","Text":"then one or the other must be 0."},{"Start":"01:24.155 ","End":"01:30.830","Text":"Either this equals 0 or this thing"},{"Start":"01:30.830 ","End":"01:37.440","Text":"has to be equal to 0. x is 0 just means x is 0,"},{"Start":"01:37.440 ","End":"01:42.750","Text":"but x plus 2 is 0 means that x is equal to minus 2."},{"Start":"01:42.980 ","End":"01:46.535","Text":"There are 2 possible solutions,"},{"Start":"01:46.535 ","End":"01:50.555","Text":"either x is 0 or x is minus 2."},{"Start":"01:50.555 ","End":"01:54.395","Text":"This is typical quadratic equations typically have 2 solutions."},{"Start":"01:54.395 ","End":"01:58.530","Text":"Not always, but typically. We\u0027re done."}],"ID":4990},{"Watched":false,"Name":"Exercise 4","Duration":"1m 13s","ChapterTopicVideoID":4987,"CourseChapterTopicPlaylistID":56130,"HasSubtitles":true,"ThumbnailPath":"https://www.proprep.com/Images/Videos_Thumbnails/4987.jpeg","UploadDate":"2016-02-11T16:53:52.4570000","DurationForVideoObject":"PT1M13S","Description":null,"VideoComments":[],"Subtitles":[{"Start":"00:00.000 ","End":"00:02.670","Text":"We have to solve this equation,"},{"Start":"00:02.670 ","End":"00:05.880","Text":"which is a quadratic equation,"},{"Start":"00:05.880 ","End":"00:08.340","Text":"but it\u0027s missing the constant term,"},{"Start":"00:08.340 ","End":"00:09.960","Text":"so we don\u0027t need the formula."},{"Start":"00:09.960 ","End":"00:12.105","Text":"Let\u0027s solve it over here."},{"Start":"00:12.105 ","End":"00:16.270","Text":"What we do in this case is factorize it."},{"Start":"00:16.340 ","End":"00:18.960","Text":"What\u0027s biggest we can take out,"},{"Start":"00:18.960 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mentally,"},{"Start":"04:44.525 ","End":"04:48.540","Text":"this comes out to be 23."},{"Start":"04:48.560 ","End":"04:51.660","Text":"Move it out the way."},{"Start":"04:51.660 ","End":"04:55.760","Text":"We get 2 solutions 1 by taking the plus 1,"},{"Start":"04:55.760 ","End":"04:56.870","Text":"by taking the minus."},{"Start":"04:56.870 ","End":"04:58.160","Text":"If we have the plus,"},{"Start":"04:58.160 ","End":"05:00.080","Text":"it\u0027s minus 7,"},{"Start":"05:00.080 ","End":"05:03.870","Text":"plus this 23 over 2,"},{"Start":"05:03.870 ","End":"05:05.715","Text":"we take the minus,"},{"Start":"05:05.715 ","End":"05:10.995","Text":"it\u0027s minus 7 minus 23 over 2."},{"Start":"05:10.995 ","End":"05:16.380","Text":"Now here, 23-7=16 divided by 2 is 8."},{"Start":"05:16.380 ","End":"05:19.650","Text":"Here, I see it\u0027s going to come out negative."},{"Start":"05:19.650 ","End":"05:22.025","Text":"I know the width can\u0027t be negative,"},{"Start":"05:22.025 ","End":"05:24.080","Text":"so I don\u0027t care what it is."},{"Start":"05:24.080 ","End":"05:25.430","Text":"It comes out -15,"},{"Start":"05:25.430 ","End":"05:27.845","Text":"but I see it\u0027s negative so I don\u0027t bother."},{"Start":"05:27.845 ","End":"05:31.085","Text":"We know that the width is 8."},{"Start":"05:31.085 ","End":"05:33.875","Text":"We can determine all the dimensions."},{"Start":"05:33.875 ","End":"05:38.405","Text":"If the width is 8, then the length,"},{"Start":"05:38.405 ","End":"05:44.575","Text":"which is the width plus 7 is 15."},{"Start":"05:44.575 ","End":"05:47.540","Text":"We can write the answer, I\u0027ll even write it on the picture."},{"Start":"05:47.540 ","End":"05:57.840","Text":"The width is 8 inches and the length is 15 inches."},{"Start":"05:57.890 ","End":"06:02.530","Text":"That\u0027s the answer. 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