1955 AHSME Problems/Problem 4

Problem

The equality $\frac{1}{x-1}=\frac{2}{x-2}$ is satisfied by:

$\textbf{(A)}\ \text{no real values of }x\qquad\textbf{(B)}\ \text{either }x=1\text{ or }x=2\qquad\textbf{(C)}\ \text{only }x=1\\ \textbf{(D)}\ \text{only }x=2\qquad\textbf{(E)}\ \text{only }x=0$

Solution

From the equality, $\frac{1}{x-1}=\frac{2}{x-2}$ , we get ${(x-1)}\times2={(x-2)}\times1$ .

Solving this, we get, ${2x-2}={x-2}$ .

Thus, \ \text{only }x=0$ can satisfy the equation, {\(E)}.

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1955 AHSME Problems/Problem 4

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