Solve Blocks

[ptc-6780633]

I have a problem with my solve blocks in both Prime 2.0 and 15 that I was hoping someone might know how to solve.

I was trying to follow this nice example (example on left, my work on right), but as you can see, once I get to the givens, the expression gets evaluated on the right side before I have a chance to enter the value it's supposed to equal.

I couldn't find this mentioned in any of the solve block tutorials (for either prime 2.0 or 15). Does anyone have a suggestion to how to fix this?

[ptc-6780633]

[Werner_E]

You can't have two solve blocks side by side in MC15 unless you put at least one completely in a text region.

For further questions please attach you worksheet as usually its hard to impossible to debug a picture.

As you have noticed you can't simply copy and paste a picture in the text. But you could have edited your original post instead of posting an additonal one.

[AndyWesterman]

Hi,

You have the first 2 types of equals for mathcad.

1 := the assignment

and

2 = the evaluation

Now for the solve block there is a third

here you need to use the 'boolean equals' = and in the work sheet it will show up in bold.

this doesn't define values, but rather the relationship between variables.

It can be typed as "<ctrl> = "

or selected from the boolean toolbar on the menu at the top of the mathcad window.

Regards

Andy

[Fred_Kohlhepp]

Don't bother with Prime 2, it's nearly worthless unless you're trying to learn the editor.

See version 15 attached.

Remember Mathcad evaluates left to right and top to bottom.