SOLUTION: Solve the equation 643x-1÷16x+2=256x÷42x

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Question 1206843: Solve the equation 643x-1÷16x+2=256x÷42x

Answer by Edwin McCravy(20054)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
I'm always suspicious about problems like this.

The way you have it, with no parentheses, it means this



which has approximate solutions x≈-0.0031106305 and x≈105.4850442

using a TI-84 Plus CE calculator:

But my experience with students' failure to understand 
how to type mathematical expressions all on one line,
tells me that you might have meant this:




or



or



or some other ways.

So I'm not going to attempt the other ways. They
all have different solutions.

Edwin


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