document.write( "Question 652702: How do I solve for y when x=1
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in place of the now absent

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(what you wrote could be interpreted either way) for

. That is because

and

are NOT the same thing. Furthermore, you are not really \"solving\" anything. Your equation is already solved for

in terms of

. What you are doing is evaluating the function

when

; evaluating and solving are two different things.\r
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