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Old August 8th, 2008, 12:02 PM
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Post Transposition Question

I have a exam in around a weeks time; for one of the questions I must transpose:

10V1-10VN = VN-V2

To Get:

10V1+V2 = 11VP

Please can someone run me through this transposition; I know it's not hard however I keep ending up with -11VP on the one side.

Many thanks in advance for any help.

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Old August 8th, 2008, 01:24 PM
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How do you get "VP" at all? You started with "VN".

How did you get "+V2" on the left? Doesn't the same procedure lead you to "+10VN" on the right?

Why are we calling this a "Transposition", just to make it more difficult? If you just use "Addition", I think you'll be happier.
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Thanks for the reply, TKHunny.

It was a transposition; but I (foolishly) hadn't put all my workings out up - otherwise I would have realised my typos!

Have now managed to work it out (after correcting my own errors(!))

But again, thanks for the swift reply.
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