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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
7578990757010
8997571142101
75714254701-5
14247311-516
471470-516-757
So our multiplicative inverse is 16 mod 757 ≡ 16
Source: ExtendedEuclideanAlgorithm.com

nbqr t1t2t3
1131580113010
158113145101
1134522301-2
45231221-23
232211-23-5
2212203-5113
So our multiplicative inverse is -5 mod 113 ≡ 108
Source: ExtendedEuclideanAlgorithm.com

nbqr t1t2t3
6917886701-8
78671111-89
671161-89-62
1111109-62691
So our multiplicative inverse is -62 mod 691 ≡ 629
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 ≡ 169 × 899-1 (mod 757) ≡ 169 × 16 (mod 757) ≡ 433 (mod 757)
x ≡ 785 × 158-1 (mod 113) ≡ 785 × 108 (mod 113) ≡ 30 (mod 113)
x ≡ 603 × 78-1 (mod 691) ≡ 603 × 629 (mod 691) ≡ 619 (mod 691)


Now the actual calculation

  1. Find the common modulus M
    M = m1 × m2 × ... × mk = 757 × 113 × 691 = 59108831
  2. We calculate the numbers M1 to M3
    M1=M/m1=59108831/757=78083,   M2=M/m2=59108831/113=523087,   M3=M/m3=59108831/691=85541
  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
    757780830757010
    78083757103112101
    75711268501-6
    112851271-67
    852734-67-27
    274637-27169
    4311-27169-196
    3130169-196757
    So our multiplicative inverse is -196 mod 757 ≡ 561
    Source: ExtendedEuclideanAlgorithm.com

    nbqr t1t2t3
    1135230870113010
    523087113462910101
    1131011301-11
    103311-1134
    3130-1134-113
    So our multiplicative inverse is 34 mod 113 ≡ 34
    Source: ExtendedEuclideanAlgorithm.com

    nbqr t1t2t3
    691855410691010
    85541691123548101
    691548114301-1
    54814331191-14
    143119124-14-5
    119244234-524
    242311-524-29
    23123024-29691
    So our multiplicative inverse is -29 mod 691 ≡ 662
    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
    =  (433 × 78083 × 561 +
       30 × 523087 × 34 +
       619 × 85541 × 662)   mod 59108831
    = 55402235 (mod 59108831)


    So our answer is 55402235 (mod 59108831).


Verification

So we found that x ≡ 55402235
If this is correct, then the following statements (i.e. the original equations) are true:
899x (mod 757) ≡ 169 (mod 757)
158x (mod 113) ≡ 785 (mod 113)
78x (mod 691) ≡ 603 (mod 691)

Let's see whether that's indeed the case if we use x ≡ 55402235.