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If in the course of your elimination you come across a clearly untrue statement such as 0 = 2, it indicates that there is no solution.

For example, let's pick a simple system.

x = 9

x = 0

If we use elimination by multiplying the bottom equation by -1 to eliminate the x's then add the two equations together, we will end up with

0 = 9 which is clearly an untrue statement. Therefore the two equations (actually parallel lines) have no solution.

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