SOLUTION: 1/4=3-2x-1/x+2

Question 146444: 1/4=3-2x-1/x+2
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1/4=3-2x-1/x+2
Multiply thru by 4x to eliminate fractions.

Collect like terms

Put in standard quadratic form

Solved by pluggable solver: SOLVE quadratic equation (work shown, graph etc)

Quadratic equation (in our case ) has the following solutons:

For these solutions to exist, the discriminant should not be a negative number.

First, we need to compute the discriminant : .

Discriminant d=233 is greater than zero. That means that there are two solutions: .

Quadratic expression can be factored:

Again, the answer is: 2.14152109515461, 0.233478904845391. Here's your graph:

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