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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
4199850419010
9854192147101
419147212501-2
1471251221-23
12522515-23-17
2215173-1720
15721-1720-57
717020-57419
So our multiplicative inverse is -57 mod 419 ≡ 362
Source: ExtendedEuclideanAlgorithm.com

nbqr t1t2t3
767666110101-1
6661016601-17
10160141-17-8
60411197-815
411923-815-38
1936115-38243
3130-38243-767
So our multiplicative inverse is 243 mod 767 ≡ 243
Source: ExtendedEuclideanAlgorithm.com

nbqr t1t2t3
4675790467010
5794671112101
46711241901-4
112195171-421
191712-421-25
1728121-25221
2120-25221-467
So our multiplicative inverse is 221 mod 467 ≡ 221
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 ≡ 356 × 985-1 (mod 419) ≡ 356 × 362 (mod 419) ≡ 239 (mod 419)
x ≡ 413 × 666-1 (mod 767) ≡ 413 × 243 (mod 767) ≡ 649 (mod 767)
x ≡ 92 × 579-1 (mod 467) ≡ 92 × 221 (mod 467) ≡ 251 (mod 467)


Now the actual calculation

  1. Find the common modulus M
    M = m1 × m2 × ... × mk = 419 × 767 × 467 = 150081191
  2. We calculate the numbers M1 to M3
    M1=M/m1=150081191/419=358189,   M2=M/m2=150081191/767=195673,   M3=M/m3=150081191/467=321373
  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
    4193581890419010
    358189419854363101
    41936315601-1
    363566271-17
    562722-17-15
    2721317-15202
    2120-15202-419
    So our multiplicative inverse is 202 mod 419 ≡ 202
    Source: ExtendedEuclideanAlgorithm.com

    nbqr t1t2t3
    7671956730767010
    19567376725588101
    7678886301-8
    88631251-89
    6325213-89-26
    25131129-2635
    131211-2635-61
    12112035-61767
    So our multiplicative inverse is -61 mod 767 ≡ 706
    Source: ExtendedEuclideanAlgorithm.com

    nbqr t1t2t3
    4673213730467010
    32137346768877101
    467776501-6
    7751521-691
    5221-691-188
    212091-188467
    So our multiplicative inverse is -188 mod 467 ≡ 279
    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
    =  (239 × 358189 × 202 +
       649 × 195673 × 706 +
       251 × 321373 × 279)   mod 150081191
    = 84286279 (mod 150081191)


    So our answer is 84286279 (mod 150081191).


Verification

So we found that x ≡ 84286279
If this is correct, then the following statements (i.e. the original equations) are true:
985x (mod 419) ≡ 356 (mod 419)
666x (mod 767) ≡ 413 (mod 767)
579x (mod 467) ≡ 92 (mod 467)

Let's see whether that's indeed the case if we use x ≡ 84286279.