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Quadratic fractions (Posted on 2025-04-10) Difficulty: 3 of 5
Find the sum of the real values of x satisfying
2x2 + 20x + 21    2x2 + 24x + 11
-------------- = ---------------
2x2 − 12x + 20    2x2 − 8x + 10

No Solution Yet Submitted by Danish Ahmed Khan    
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re: solution, maybe | Comment 2 of 4 |
(In reply to solution, maybe by xdog)

  Looking with desmos, both sides are equal (to 1) when x = -1/32,
and this seems the only other solution. So what's missing in the math?

Also, W-alpha has it reducing to:

64 x^2 -158x - 5 = 0

How?

Edited on April 11, 2025, 6:51 am
  Posted by Steven Lord on 2025-04-11 03:54:58

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