Solve. 
| Foundations
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1) How do you solve for  in the equation  ?
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2) How do you find the zeros of  ?
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| Answer:
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1) You square both sides of the equation to get  .
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2) You factor  to get  . From here, we solve to get  or  .
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Solution:
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First, we get the square root by itself. Subtracting 5 from both sides, we get  .
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| Step 2:
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| Now, to get rid of the square root, we square both sides of the equation.
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So, we get  .
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| Step 3:
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We multiply out the right hand side to get  .
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| Step 4:
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| Getting all the terms on one side, we have Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle 0=x^2-11x+28}
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| To solve, we can factor to get Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle 0=(x-7)(x-4)}
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| Step 5:
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| The two possible solutions are Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle x=7 }
and Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle x=4}
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| But, plugging in Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle x=4 }
into the problem, gives us Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle 6=\sqrt{4-3}+5=4 }
, which is not true.
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| Thus, the only solution is Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle x=7 }
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| Final Answer:
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| Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle x=7 }
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