document.write( "<A HREF=/cgi-bin/jump-to-question.mpl?question=731801>Question 731801</A>: <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> &#8730;(x+10)=2-x<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "&#8730;(x+3)=(x-1)/3<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Square both sides and simplify.  Simplify means get all terms on one side and just 0 on the other side, and make terms in the order of general form, decreasing degree of x.  \r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Those instructions might be a little too brief, so here is a refinement:\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "The right hand member contains a variable and a constant term.  The left hand member uses the variable term and a constant term both inside the square root function.  We want to unwrap the left hand member, so we start by squaring BOTH sides.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "(1) Square both sides.<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "(2) Use inverse operations to collect the terms to one side and have zero on the other side; we can detect by visual inspection that we'll have a quadratic equation.<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "(3) If you are interested in solving for x, you'd either use factoring or general solution to quadratic equation.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "See if the quadratic expression is easy to factor first...<BR>\n" );
document.write( "?*?=-6, ?+?=-5<BR>\n" );
document.write( "-6*1=-6, -6+1=-5, that is the pair of constants for the linear binomials.<BR>\n" );
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