SOLUTION: 9y 2/3 - 24y 1/3 + 16. I'm so lost when it comes to this stuff!!!

Question 21652: 9y 2/3 - 24y 1/3 + 16.
I'm so lost when it comes to this stuff!!!
Answer by longjonsilver(2297) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
what about it?

First, lets change variable to remove the fractional part of the powers... like so:

Let x = , so that }. We therefore get:

which is a straight forward quadratic now, which hopefully can be factorised:

(3x - 4)(3x - 4)
ie

So, writing this back into the original variable, y, we have

Hope this is clear?

jon.