@nytpu just use the BASIC program in the back of the book to solve it
... oh wait, you don't have *that* book? Shocking! I guess that's why it's an Engineering book, the math department hates their one weird trick!
(It's a general-purpose solver that does indeed turn the problem's system of equations into a matrix and uses recursive reduction methods on it)
https://chaos.social/@jhwgh1968/113620138569214275
@jhwgh1968 There's also balancing chemical equations problems (with impossible molecules and nonsense reactions) that are much more trivial to solve using either a technique taught in a […]
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