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September 16, 2015
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curve intersection on mathcad prime 3.1

  • September 16, 2015
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I'm using matchcad prime 3.1 for the very first time to solve curve intersections as below (which I have a ton of). I know I have to use solve block, but I can get it to work. what am I doing wrongly?

y1:=86

y2:= -0.0000054527x^3 + 0.010903836x^2 + 0.0714244709x + 74.18816

x:=1         y:=1

y1(x) = y2(x)

y=y1(x)

find(x,y)

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23-Emerald V
September 16, 2015

Cryslin Lin wrote:

I'm using matchcad prime 3.1 for the very first time to solve curve intersections as below (which I have a ton of). I know I have to use solve block, but I can get it to work. what am I doing wrongly?

y1:=86

y2:= -0.0000054527x^3 + 0.010903836x^2 + 0.0714244709x + 74.18816

x:=1         y:=1

y1(x) = y2(x)

y=y1(x)

find(x,y)

You need to define y1 and y2 as functions, eg:

You don't need to define y2 using variables as I have done, you could just amend your y2 to y2(x); I just prefer writing the constants separately as it makes it easier to play with them.

Stuart