Re: How to get Mathematica to solve for "nonbasic variables"?
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- Subject: [mg42385] Re: How to get Mathematica to solve for "nonbasic variables"?
- From: Bill Rowe <listuser at earthlink.net>
- Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 06:10:38 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
On 7/2/03 at 6:36 AM, a_cjones at hotmail.com (cdj) wrote:
> Intuitively, I'd like to get Mathematica to compute things of the following
> sort:
>
> In: Solve[5x==6y,x/y]
>
> Out: {x/y -> 5/6}
Does
In[1]:=
sol = Solve[5*x == 6*y, x]
r = {x/y -> (x/y /. sol[[1]])}
Out[1]=
{{x -> (6*y)/5}}
Out[2]=
{x/y -> 6/5}
do what you want?