Sunday, September 20, 2009

What Is Wrong Here?

3 Comments:

mi mi said...

:)) It's too easy to me to find out the mistake here.
1. at the line 2: don't multiply 2 side of an equation by a number when you're not sure if it equals 0.
2. Consider a=b(both of them are nor equal 0)
(a+b)(a-b)=b(a-b)
(a-b)(a+b-b)=0
(a-b)a=0
a=b (right)
or a=0 (wrong 'cause a not equals 0)

Ok? :D

mi mi said...

Sorry! There are some mistakes in my comments:
1. It's too easy "for" me.....
2. both of them "not" equal 0

Tú Phình said...

Oh, it's nothing special here.
a = b --> a - b = 0
So you can't divide both of sides by (a-b).
The problem here is step 5.
Rest of the math is non sense!