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Algebra.Com's Answer #233292 by Edwin McCravy(20055) $\"\"$ $\"About$

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document.write( "The square root radical  never indicates\r\n" );
document.write( "a negative number.  Therefore the right side of the above equation\r\n" );
document.write( "cannot be negative.  Therefore the left side, which begins with a\r\n" );
document.write( "negative sign, could only have value 0.  However that would make\r\n" );
document.write( " be 0, which would give .  However, if we \r\n" );
document.write( "substitute  in the right side we get  which\r\n" );
document.write( "is undefined with real numbers.\r\n" );
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document.write( "So, there is no solution unless the - sign in front of the left\r\n" );
document.write( "side was typo.  If it was a typo, post again without the typo.\r\n" );
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