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#1 2007-12-31 21:52:10
- tony123
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Solve the equation
Solve the equation
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#2 2008-01-01 00:07:05
- Jai Ganesh
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Re: Solve the equation
x=1, by intuition!!!
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#3 2008-01-01 05:54:48
- JaneFairfax
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Re: Solve the equation
What about
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#4 2008-01-08 23:36:23
- lester_day
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Re: Solve the equation
Nice one JaneFairfax.
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#5 2008-01-08 23:52:17
- JaneFairfax
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Re: Solve the equation
It should be obvious that the way to tackle these questions is to spot all the obvious solutions and then show that these are the only real solutions (I presume Tony only wants real solutions). 
This is what the curves
and look like together (they former only exists in the range −15 ≤ x ≤ 2):http://www.mathsisfun.com/graph/functio … x=6.566125
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