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The sum of a number and it's reciprocal is 10/3. What is the number?
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Question 54335: Use the five-step method to solve. Check your answer.
The sum of a number and it's reciprocal is 10/3. What is the number? Answer by rchill(405) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! I'm not familiar with the 5-step method, but the equation is , which becomes: after multiplying both sides by 3 after multiplying both sides by x after subtracting 10x from both sides after factorization
So, either 3x-1=0 or x-3=0, which means that x can be either or .