remedy vs solve

remedy

verb
  • To provide or serve as a remedy for. 

noun
  • Something that corrects or counteracts. 

  • A medicine, application, or treatment that relieves or cures a disease. 

  • The accepted tolerance or deviation in fineness or weight in the production of gold coins etc. 

  • The legal means to recover a right or to prevent or obtain redress for a wrong. 

solve

verb
  • To find an answer or solution to a problem or question; to work out. 

  • to find out the perpetrator, the motive etc (of crime) 

  • To algebraically manipulate an equation or inequality into a form that isolates a chosen variable on one side, so that the other side consists of an expression that may be used to generate solutions. 

  • To loosen or separate the parts of. 

  • To find the values of variables that satisfy a system of equations and/or inequalities. 

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