Consider the system of simultaneous equations: | Equation | |---| | | | |

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Problem

Consider the system of simultaneous equations: | Equation | |---| |

3x - 2y = 12

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y = mx - 6

| (1) Find the gradient of each line. (2) Hence determine the value of

m

for which the simultaneous equations do *not* have a unique solution. Explain what is happening in this case. (3) For any other value of

m

, the system has a unique solution. Find this solution.