document.write( "Question 205396: Please help me solve the problem:\r
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\"sin%28x%29+=+x+%5E+2\"
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document.write( "When the unknown letter appears both inside\r\n" );
document.write( "and outside a trig ratio in an equation, \r\n" );
document.write( "then there is no way to solve such an equation \r\n" );
document.write( "by any of the  methods of algebra. It can only \r\n" );
document.write( "be estimated using a graphical calculator.  \r\n" );
document.write( "Of course we can see right off by inspection that \r\n" );
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document.write( "\"x=0\" is one solution.  \r\n" );
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document.write( "However there is another solution, which I\r\n" );
document.write( "got from a TI-84.  Graph these:\r\n" );
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document.write( "\"Y%5B1%5D=sin%28x%29\"\r\n" );
document.write( "\"Y%5B2%5D=x%5E2\"\r\n" );
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document.write( "with calculator in RADIAN mode.  Then find their\r\n" );
document.write( "other point of intersection, which is\r\n" );
document.write( "approximately\r\n" );
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document.write( "\"x=.8767262154\"\r\n" );
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