To create an equation that has zero solutions, we need to ensure that both sides simplify to contradictory statements. This means that when we simplify, we’ll end up with something like , where and are not equal.
Starting from the left-hand side of the equation you provided:
Let's simplify that:
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Distribute :
Now we need to write an expression on the right-hand side that simplifies to a constant (i.e., it does not depend on ) and does not equal .
Let's choose a constant that is not equal to . For instance, we can set it equal to .
Thus, we can finish the equation as:
So, putting it all together, we have:
This equation simplifies to . Solving that gives:
However, if we want it to have no solutions, we can change the constant to something that would result in a contradiction, like:
This would yield:
To make sure it has no solutions, we set it to something like:
The left-hand side simplifies to , and setting the equation equal to :
To definitively create an equation with zero solutions, you can write:
This simplifies to:
Thus, to conclude, here’s the final version that does not depend on what we set it to, just avoids the contradictory with real coefficients so we cannot arrive to equal of equality:
Final Form: