# When writing a system of equations or inequalities from a situation, how do you know that you have possibly written the system correctly?

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Systems of equations
When writing a system of equations or inequalities from a situation, how do you know that you have possibly written the system correctly?

2020-10-21
You can check that you wrote the correct system of equations or inequalities by verifying that the equations make sense with the given information and checking that the units of the expressions make sense for the situation.

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