There are two sets defined in the question: one for the boys who play hockey (H) and the other for the boys who play volleyball (V).
All the boys play at least one of the two games, so no elements are outside both sets.
There are 30 boys in total. 20 of them play hockey and 15 play volleyball. Since the sum of both numbers is greater than the total of boys, the difference corresponds to the boys who play both games.
Thus 20 + 15 - 30 = 5 boys play both games
Given that 5 boys are shared by both sets, from the 20 playing hockey, 15 play ONLY hockey. From the 15 boys playing volleyball, 10 play ONLY volleyball.
a) The system has a unique solution for and any value of , and we say the system is consisted
b) The system has infinite solutions for and
c) The system has no solution for and
Step-by-step explanation:
Since we need to base the solutions of the system on one of the independent terms (), the determinant method is not suitable and therefore we use the Gauss elimination method.
The first step is to write our system in the augmented matrix form:
The we can use the transformation , obtaining:
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Now we can start the analysis:
If then, the system has a unique solution for any value of , meaning that the last row will transform back to the equation as:
from where we can see that only in the case of the value of can not be determined.
if and the system has infinite solutions: this is very simple to see by substituting these values in the equation resulting from the last row:
which means that the second equation is a linear combination of the first one. Therefore, we can solve the first equation to get as a function of o viceversa. Thus, () is called a parameter since there are no constraints on what values they can take on.
if and the system has no solution. Again by substituting in the equation resulting from the last row:
which is false for all values of and since we have something that is not possible the system has no solution