Math & Science ⇒ Solution for a System of linear Equations

[thenight]

Hi!

I'm a beginner in LaTeX. I need some help to write LaTeX code for this:

linear-equation-system.png (16.04 KiB) Viewed 16442 times

Do I have to use {tabular} or are there any other ways to code this?

Thanks in advance for helping me out.

[localghost]

Show what you have tried so far in form of a self-contained and minimal example to give an adequate problem description.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[thenight]

So far the best I have come up is

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\begin{cases}
$y=2x-5$\\
$4x-2y-10=0$
\end{cases}
\begin{tabular}{l c r}
$2x-y-5=0$ & $|\cdot (-2)|$ & $ -4x+2x+10=0$\\
$4x-2y-10=0$ &$|\cdot 1|$ & $4x-2y-10=0$\\\hline
& & $0=0$
\end{tabular}

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

welcome to the board!

One tipp, a minimal example should be compilable, i.e. a complete small document beginning with \documentclass and ending with \end{document}. So readers can directly test it and help you.

If I would need to typeset this pretty complex diagram, I would

• use an {array} environment for the whole thing, because of left alignment, the horizontal line, and math mode for the cells,
• use an aligned environment of the amsmath package for small equation blocks,
• use \left\{ and \right. for the big braces, I guess a cases environment is not needed here. The mathmode document explains more.

However, this structure is a bit unusual. Perhaps compare with good math books, and see if any book would use such setup. If you perhaps then would decide not to use tabular layout with horizontal and vertical lines cutting through math expressions, we would not need to contruct that layout.

Stefan

[thenight]

Okay,
Thank you for the tips.

[thenight]

Hi!
I have still some problem with this code. It gives me some errors and and it is not quite the same I need.
Thanks in advance.

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\documentclass[a4paper,fleqn,12pt]{article}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{amsmath,amsfonts,amsthm}

\begin{document}
\[\left\lbrace \begin{array}{l}
y=2x-5\\
4x-2y-10=0
\end{array}\right. \Rightarrow\]

\[\begin{array}{lcr}
\Rightarrow \left\lbrace
\begin{align*}
2x-y-5=0\\
4x-2y-10=0
\end{align*}&
\begin{align*}
\left| \begin{array}{c}
\cdot (-2)\\\cdot 1 
\end{array} \right| 
\end{align*}&+
\begin{align*}
-4x+2y+10=0\\
4x-2y-10=0
\end{align*}
\\\cline{1-3}
&&$0=0$
\end{array} \]

\end{document}

[localghost]

As Stefan already remarked, this is a quite unusual way of writing such stuff. Nevertheless you can try something like this.

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\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,fleqn]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{amsmath,amsfonts,amsthm}
\usepackage{booktabs,multirow}

\begin{document}
  \[
    \left\lbrace
    \begin{aligned}
      y &= 2x-5\\
     4x-2y-10 &= 0
    \end{aligned}
    \right. \qquad\Rightarrow
  \]

  \[
    \begin{array}{@{}r@{\,}c@{\,}lcccccr@{\,}c@{\,}l@{}}
      2x-y-5 & = & 0 & & & \begin{array}{|c|}\cdot\,(-2)\end{array} & & \multirow{2}{*}{+} & -4x+2y+10 & = & 0 \\
      4x-2y-10 & = & 0 & & & \begin{array}{|c|}\cdot\,1\phantom{(-)}\end{array} & & & 4x-2y-10 & = & 0 \\ \midrule
      & & & & & & & & 0 & = & 0 \\
    \end{array}
  \]
\end{document}

I would typeset such things by the gauss package, thus apply the Gaussian elimination.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[thenight]

Thank you for replying.