Linear congruence solutions: keep both residue classes

An inverse failure is not the end of this problem

Linear congruence solutions can exist even when the coefficient has no modular inverse. The target on the right matters. In this original integer worksheet, 6 has no inverse modulo 14, yet 6x congruent 8 modulo 14 has two residue solutions. Changing the target to 9 makes the request impossible. The useful decision is whether the assigned target permits solutions, followed by a complete answer in the original modulus.

All numbers here are stipulated mathematical inputs. The variable x must be an integer. A statement that 6x is congruent to 8 modulo 14 means that 6x-8 is an integer multiple of 14. Equivalently, there must be an integer k with 6x-14k=8. This definition is the starting point for every reduction and check below. It involves exact integers rather than approximate equality, a measured cycle, or a physical object's dimensions.

We will report every representative from 0 through 13. That range contains fourteen integers, one for each residue class modulo 14. Reporting representatives is different from listing every integer solution. If a representative works, adding 14 produces another integer in the same original residue class. The final answer needs to distinguish those repetitions from a genuinely different class that also solves the congruence.

Check the common divisor and the target

The greatest common divisor of 6 and 14 is 2. Both terms on the left of 6x-14k=8 are divisible by 2 for all integers x and k. The target 8 is also divisible by 2, so this particular common-divisor obstruction does not rule out a solution. That observation is a necessary compatibility check. We will still construct the solutions and verify them, rather than treating a passed obstruction check as a finished answer.

By contrast, an inverse for 6 modulo 14 would require an integer u with 6u congruent 1 modulo 14. It would give 6u-14v=1 for some integer v. The left side is even and the right side is odd, so no such inverse exists. This proves the inverse failure without searching fourteen possibilities. It also shows exactly what failed: the requested target 1 is incompatible with the common divisor 2.

Our assigned target is 8, not 1. Concluding that no inverse means no solution to the assigned problem would transfer a result about one target to a different target. A coefficient can fail to have an inverse and still reach some other residues. The rest of the calculation determines which x values reach 8. It does not attempt to manufacture an inverse for 6 or silently replace the target with 1.

Reduce the entire integer relation

Start with 6x-14k=8 and divide the entire equality by 2. The result is 3x-7k=4. Because the original equality has integer k, this division leaves the same integer k in the new relation. Conversely, multiplying 3x-7k=4 by 2 restores the original relation. The two integer statements are equivalent. The reduced congruence is therefore 3x congruent 4 modulo 7.

The modulus changed from 14 to 7 along with the coefficient and target. It would be incorrect to write 3x congruent 4 modulo 14 as though only the visible coefficient and target needed division. That different condition would require 3x-4 to be divisible by 14. Our valid reduction requires divisibility by 7. It may hold when divisibility by 14 does not, so retaining the old modulus would discard some legitimate solutions.

For example, x=13 gives 3 times 13 minus 4, or 35. This is 5 times 7, so it satisfies the reduced relation. It is not divisible by 14. An incorrect reduction that kept modulus 14 would reject x=13, even though its original product 6 times 13 equals 78 and 78-8=70 is 5 times 14. This explicit witness exposes the lost solution rather than merely labeling the reduction wrong.

Solve the reduced congruence

The coefficient 3 does have an inverse modulo 7. The small integer identity 3 times 5=15=1+2 times 7 verifies that 5 is one such inverse. Multiply 3x congruent 4 modulo 7 by 5. The left coefficient 15 differs from 1 by a multiple of 7, so the result is x congruent 20 modulo 7. Since 20=6+2 times 7, this is x congruent 6 modulo 7.

One can see the same step entirely in integer equations. From 3x-7k=4, multiply by 5 to obtain 15x-35k=20. Substitute 15x=x+14x, then rearrange to x-20=7 times (5k-2x). The expression in parentheses is an integer. Thus x-20 is divisible by 7. This derivation keeps the integer meaning of the congruence visible and checks that no ordinary fraction has been substituted for the integer variable.

The converse is also needed for a complete solution set. If x=6+7t for any integer t, then 3x-4=18+21t-4=14+21t=7 times (2+3t). Hence every integer in the class x congruent 6 modulo 7 satisfies the reduced relation. The multiplication-by-5 argument gave necessity, and this substitution gives sufficiency. Together they establish the entire reduced class, rather than just one working example.

Lift back to the original reporting range

The complete integer solution is x=6+7t for arbitrary integer t. Within the requested range 0 through 13, t=0 gives x=6 and t=1 gives x=13. Taking t=-1 gives -1, below the range; taking t=2 gives 20, above it. Further decreases or increases move farther away. The two representatives in the original range are therefore exactly 6 and 13.

They are different modulo 14 because their difference is 7, which is not an integer multiple of 14. Yet they belong to the same reduced class modulo 7. This is why finding one reduced representative did not finish the original reporting task. A reduced class can correspond to more than one original class. The modulus attached to a claim is part of that claim and must remain visible when its representatives are counted.

To connect the two descriptions for every integer, separate t into even and odd cases. If t=2s, then x=6+14s, giving the original class represented by 6. If t=2s+1, then x=13+14s, giving the original class represented by 13. Every integer t is either even or odd, so these two classes exhaust x=6+7t. No third original class is hidden outside the chosen range.

Check both answers in the original equation

For x=6, compute the original product: 6 times 6=36. The difference from the target is 36-8=28=2 times 14. Thus 36=8+2 times 14, and the original congruence holds. For x=13, compute 6 times 13=78. Here 78-8=70=5 times 14, giving 78=8+5 times 14. Both checks use the original coefficient, target, and modulus.

A direct enumeration offers a separate finite check. For x from 0 through 13, the remainders of 6x modulo 14 are, in order, 0, 6, 12, 4, 10, 2, 8, 0, 6, 12, 4, 10, 2, 8. The target 8 appears at positions x=6 and x=13. The table agrees with the algebra and makes the repeated seven-step pattern explicit. Its indices start at zero, so the seventh listed entry belongs to x=6.

The table also shows that this coefficient reaches only even remainders in the chosen range, each twice. That fact is specific to these declared inputs and agrees with their common divisor 2. The argument above establishes the main result without guessing a pattern from the table alone. When checking a table against a formula, keep its starting index and reporting range beside it; otherwise an off-by-one reading could change the proposed representatives.

Change the target and locate the obstruction

For the separate control 6x congruent 9 modulo 14, the required integer equation is 6x-14k=9. Its left side is even for every integer x and k, while 9 is odd. There are no integer solutions and no representatives to report in 0 through 13. This is a proof for all integers, not merely a failed search over a few trial values. The earlier target 8 remains a different problem with two solutions.

Keep three conclusions distinct in the written record: no inverse for 6 modulo 14; two classes for target 8; no class for target 9. The first conclusion concerns target 1. Each of the others concerns its own specified target. The successful calculation reduces a compatible integer relation and then lifts its result back to the original modulus. The failed control stops at a parity contradiction that no choice of x can repair.

Use other targets as separate controls

A target of zero gives another compatible control with the same coefficient and modulus. The equation 6x congruent 0 modulo 14 reduces to 3x congruent 0 modulo 7. Multiplying by the verified inverse 5 gives x congruent 0 modulo 7. Its representatives modulo 14 are 0 and 7. The original checks are 6 times 0=0 and 6 times 7=42=3 times 14. These answers belong to the zero-target control, rather than replacing the answers 6 and 13 for the assigned target 8.

For target 6, reducing the whole relation gives 3x congruent 3 modulo 7. The reduced class is x congruent 1 modulo 7, so its original representatives are 1 and 8. Their products are 6 and 48, and 48=6+3 times 14. This pair illustrates the same lifting step with different inputs. Saving a small table with the target in its own column prevents the repeated coefficient and modulus from making these separate problems look interchangeable.

For this particular coefficient and modulus, every even target can be written as 2c with integer c. The relation 6x-14k=2c reduces to 3x-7k=c. The same inverse witness gives x congruent 5c modulo 7. Choose its representative r from 0 through 6. The two representatives modulo 14 are r and r+7, which both lie in 0 through 13 and differ by a nonmultiple of 14. This explains the repeated even remainders in the full table without claiming that an inverse of 6 has appeared.

This extension still fixes the coefficient at 6 and the modulus at 14. It is not a procedure for a system of several congruences or a claim that every noninvertible coefficient has exactly two solution classes. The assigned target 8 corresponds to c=4, giving 5c=20 and r=6, exactly as before. Retain the coefficient, target, original modulus, reduced modulus, and lifted representatives together whenever another control is added.

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Keep the neighboring questions separate

The modular inverse by back substitution guide constructs an inverse for a coefficient whose greatest common divisor with its modulus is one. Here the coefficient has no inverse, but a different target still permits solutions. The additional decision is to preserve both original-modulus classes after reducing the relation.

The rank-one matrix compatibility guide checks unknown entries against a row constraint. This worksheet instead checks integer divisibility and tracks how a reduced residue class lifts to the original modulus. A shared concern with compatible inputs does not make the matrix completion certificate a proof of this congruence.

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