Science:Math Exam Resources/Courses/MATH312/December 2012/Question 01 (a)
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Question 01 (a) |
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Short answer questions: Each question carries 6 marks, your answers should quote the results being used and show your work. Find two integers congruent to 3 modulo 5 and 4 modulo 7. |
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Use techniques related to the Chinese Remainder Theorem. |
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Solution |
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Please rate my easiness! It's quick and helps everyone guide their studies. We seek to solve the system of congruences given by
The first equality says that . Plugging into the second yields . Simplifying yields . We can find the inverse of 5 by using the Euclidean algorithm however since we are modulo 7, there is only 6 possible candidates so it is faster to just try them all. Since , we see that . This is the same as . Back substituting gives . So two possible answers are given by 18 and 53. |