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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
409222118701-1
2221871351-12
18735512-12-11
35122112-1124
121111-1124-35
11111024-35409
So our multiplicative inverse is -35 mod 409 ≡ 374
Source: ExtendedEuclideanAlgorithm.com

nbqr t1t2t3
5097270509010
7275091218101
50921827301-2
218732721-25
737211-25-7
7217205-7509
So our multiplicative inverse is -7 mod 509 ≡ 502
Source: ExtendedEuclideanAlgorithm.com

nbqr t1t2t3
569403116601-1
4031662711-13
16671224-13-7
71242233-717
242311-717-24
23123017-24569
So our multiplicative inverse is -24 mod 569 ≡ 545
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 ≡ 319 × 222-1 (mod 409) ≡ 319 × 374 (mod 409) ≡ 287 (mod 409)
x ≡ 110 × 727-1 (mod 509) ≡ 110 × 502 (mod 509) ≡ 248 (mod 509)
x ≡ 277 × 403-1 (mod 569) ≡ 277 × 545 (mod 569) ≡ 180 (mod 569)


Now the actual calculation

  1. Find the common modulus M
    M = m1 × m2 × ... × mk = 409 × 509 × 569 = 118454989
  2. We calculate the numbers M1 to M3
    M1=M/m1=118454989/409=289621,   M2=M/m2=118454989/509=232721,   M3=M/m3=118454989/569=208181
  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
    4092896210409010
    28962140970849101
    4094981701-8
    49172151-817
    171512-817-25
    1527117-25192
    2120-25192-409
    So our multiplicative inverse is 192 mod 409 ≡ 192
    Source: ExtendedEuclideanAlgorithm.com

    nbqr t1t2t3
    5092327210509010
    232721509457108101
    50910847701-4
    108771311-45
    7731215-45-14
    3115215-1433
    151150-1433-509
    So our multiplicative inverse is 33 mod 509 ≡ 33
    Source: ExtendedEuclideanAlgorithm.com

    nbqr t1t2t3
    5692081810569010
    208181569365496101
    56949617301-1
    496736581-17
    7358115-17-8
    58153137-831
    151312-831-39
    1326131-39265
    2120-39265-569
    So our multiplicative inverse is 265 mod 569 ≡ 265
    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
    =  (287 × 289621 × 192 +
       248 × 232721 × 33 +
       180 × 208181 × 265)   mod 118454989
    = 75630522 (mod 118454989)


    So our answer is 75630522 (mod 118454989).


Verification

So we found that x ≡ 75630522
If this is correct, then the following statements (i.e. the original equations) are true:
222x (mod 409) ≡ 319 (mod 409)
727x (mod 509) ≡ 110 (mod 509)
403x (mod 569) ≡ 277 (mod 569)

Let's see whether that's indeed the case if we use x ≡ 75630522.