The answer is: 4
<h2>Why?</h2>The smallest whole number we can use to multiply each term in order to eliminate the fractions is 4:
Multiplying each side of the equation by 4, we have:
Multiplying each side of the equation by 4, we have:
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Explanation:
This theorem doesn't have a name unfortunately. So searching it out is a bit tricky if you don't know the right way to word things. Luckily it wasn't too hard of a find, and I managed to track it down in a linear algebra textbook.
Check out the screenshot below for the snippet of the theorem and the corresponding proof. The book simply refers to it as "theorem 1.9", which again, is an unfortunate choice of naming.
