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In order for a system to have infinitely many solutions, it must contain an equation that could be solved by any set of variables. In simple terms, a two-variable system can only be solved through two distinct equations; however, if one of these equations becomes meaningless, or could be solved by any set of variables, the other equation becomes meaningless as well because any value of y could match a given value of x.

In terms of linear algebra, or any set or matrices meant to represent a system, infinitely many solutions occur due to an all 0 row. After the system is reduced to row echelon form, an all 0 row indicates that all coefficients in a given equation are equal to 0, so it does not matter what the variables are. This means that the number of equations no longer equals the number of variables and it becomes impossible to solve through cancellation and back-substitution.

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