Re: Simple question from a biologist
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- Subject: [mg67151] Re: Simple question from a biologist
- From: Jean-Marc Gulliet <jeanmarc.gulliet at gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2006 02:16:57 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
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tnad wrote:
> I'm a bit new to this so please bear with me. I solved this eqation:
>
> Sol = Solve[{{{-x, 0, z}, {x, -y, 0}, {0, y, -z}}.{A, B, C} == 0, A + B + C == 1}, {A, B, C}]
>
> and got the ouputs of A, B and C interms of x,y, and z each.
>
> Now I want to express a term called "rate" where rate = Ax = By = Cz in terms of x, y and Z only.
>
> So I tried to do this:
> Solve[rate == Ax , rate] /. Sol
>
> but I cannot get the rate in terms of x,y and z.
> Is there a better way to do this? Also if someone knows of a better tuttorial (better than the built-in tuttorial) for mathematica, please let me know.
>
Do you mean something like Out[2]?
In[1]:=
sol = Solve[{{{-x, 0, z}, {x, -y, 0}, {0, y, -z}} . {A, B, C} == 0,
A + B + C == 1}, {A, B, C}]
Out[1]=
y z x z
{{A -> ---------------, B -> ---------------,
x y + x z + y z x y + x z + y z
x y
C -> ---------------}}
x y + x z + y z
In[2]:=
Solve[rate == A*x, rate] /. sol[[1]]
Out[2]=
x y z
{{rate -> ---------------}}
x y + x z + y z
HTH,
Jean-Marc