document.write( "Question 33877: sqrt(2x-5)-sqrt(x-3)=1 \n" ); document.write( "

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document.write( "sqrt(2x-5)-sqrt(x-3)=1\r\n" );
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document.write( "Whatever the other person who responded did, doesn't make sense, at all, to this author. Yet,\r\n" );
document.write( "it's quite surprising that he/she got one of the solutions. But, there's another one!\r\n" );
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document.write( "  , with   \r\n" );
document.write( "           ----- Adding  to both sides\r\n" );
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document.write( "            ---- Squaring each side\r\n" );
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document.write( "  (x - 7)(x - 3) = 0\r\n" );
document.write( "   x - 7 = 0     OR    x - 3 = 0\r\n" );
document.write( "      x = 7    OR      x = 3\r\n" );
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document.write( "As 7 > 3 and 3 = 3, the above constraint,  is satisfied. Therefore, both solutions are ACCEPTABLE!!

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