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Level 3 Help for Problem One

Begin by SOLVING both equations:

x2 = 4 and (x - 2)2 = 0.

What do you notice?

Remember, these are 'equivalent' equations, and yet after squaring both sides the solutions are different. Why?


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Last updated: 1st May, 1996
Stephen Arnold
crsma@cc.newcastle.edu.au
© 1996 The University of Newcastle


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