"Faced with the simultaneous equations and a lazy student ignored the second equation and solved the first in this way and hence x = 5 and y = 6. As it happens, that’s the right answer.
In Mathematical Circles Revisited, Howard Eves tells of “Hapless Harry,” who tackled by writing and
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a lazy student ignored the second equation and solved the first in this way
and hence x = 5 and y = 6. As it happens, that’s the right answer.
In Mathematical Circles Revisited, Howard Eves tells of “Hapless Harry,” who tackled
by writing
and