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Forum Name: High school
Topic ID: 178
Message ID: 1
#1, RE: Where do I start?
Posted by bluediamond on Jun-04-02 at 09:10 AM
In response to message #0
I'm assuming you mean

4 * (x+1)1/2 - 5 * (x+1)3/2 + (x+1)5/2 = 0

In that case, x = -1 is obviously a solution. For other solutions, assume that x is not equal to -1 and divide the entire thing by (x+1)1/2 to get a quadratic equation.

dave