SOLUTION: Under what situation would one or more solutions of a rational equation be unacceptable?

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Question 311307: Under what situation would one or more solutions of a rational equation be unacceptable?
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If any of the solutions to a rational equation make a denominator equal zero, it is unacceptable. In special cases, when a solution makes a radicand become less than zero, it, too, is unacceptable (in the realm of real numbers).