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Transform the equations

You used one or more of the fields on the left, so your equations are of the form bx ≡ a mod m.
We want them to be of the form x ≡ a mod m, so we need to move the values on the left to the right side of the equation.
For a more detailed explanation about how this works, see this part of our page about how to execute the Chinese Remainder algorithm.

First, we calculate the inverses of the leftmost value on each row:

nbqr t1t2t3
4438030443010
8034431360101
44336018301-1
360834281-15
8328227-15-11
2827115-1116
271270-1116-443
So our multiplicative inverse is 16 mod 443 ≡ 16
Source: ExtendedEuclideanAlgorithm.com

nbqr t1t2t3
69367069010
36769522101
69223301-3
223711-322
3130-322-69
So our multiplicative inverse is 22 mod 69 ≡ 22
Source: ExtendedEuclideanAlgorithm.com

nbqr t1t2t3
1219610121010
9611217114101
1211141701-1
11471621-117
7231-117-52
212017-52121
So our multiplicative inverse is -52 mod 121 ≡ 69
Source: ExtendedEuclideanAlgorithm.com

Click on any row to reveal a more detailed calculation of each multiplicative inverse.

Now that we now the inverses, let's move the leftmost value on each row to the right of the equation:

x ≡ 222 × 803-1 (mod 443) ≡ 222 × 16 (mod 443) ≡ 8 (mod 443)
x ≡ 818 × 367-1 (mod 69) ≡ 818 × 22 (mod 69) ≡ 56 (mod 69)
x ≡ 731 × 961-1 (mod 121) ≡ 731 × 69 (mod 121) ≡ 103 (mod 121)


Now the actual calculation

  1. Find the common modulus M
    M = m1 × m2 × ... × mk = 443 × 69 × 121 = 3698607
  2. We calculate the numbers M1 to M3
    M1=M/m1=3698607/443=8349,   M2=M/m2=3698607/69=53603,   M3=M/m3=3698607/121=30567
  3. We now calculate the modular multiplicative inverses M1-1 to M3-1
    Have a look at the page that explains how to calculate modular multiplicative inverse.
    Using, for example, the Extended Euclidean Algorithm, we will find that:

    nbqr t1t2t3
    44383490443010
    834944318375101
    44337516801-1
    375685351-16
    6835133-16-7
    3533126-713
    332161-713-215
    212013-215443
    So our multiplicative inverse is -215 mod 443 ≡ 228
    Source: ExtendedEuclideanAlgorithm.com

    nbqr t1t2t3
    6953603069010
    536036977659101
    695911001-1
    5910591-16
    10911-16-7
    91906-769
    So our multiplicative inverse is -7 mod 69 ≡ 62
    Source: ExtendedEuclideanAlgorithm.com

    nbqr t1t2t3
    121305670121010
    3056712125275101
    1217514601-1
    75461291-12
    4629117-12-3
    29171122-35
    171215-35-8
    125225-821
    5221-821-50
    212021-50121
    So our multiplicative inverse is -50 mod 121 ≡ 71
    Source: ExtendedEuclideanAlgorithm.com
  4. Now we can calculate x with the equation we saw earlier
    x = (a1 × M1 × M1-1   +   a2 × M2 × M2-1   + ... +   ak × Mk × Mk-1)   mod M
    =  (8 × 8349 × 228 +
       56 × 53603 × 62 +
       103 × 30567 × 71)   mod 3698607
    = 3233465 (mod 3698607)


    So our answer is 3233465 (mod 3698607).


Verification

So we found that x ≡ 3233465
If this is correct, then the following statements (i.e. the original equations) are true:
803x (mod 443) ≡ 222 (mod 443)
367x (mod 69) ≡ 818 (mod 69)
961x (mod 121) ≡ 731 (mod 121)

Let's see whether that's indeed the case if we use x ≡ 3233465.