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It’s been a while since I did Math but, in most scenarios, when you solve for an equation with only 1 x variable and you substitute it back in, it should always be true and equal the answer in the original equation(?).
For this equation, the answer was x=7, but when I substitute it back in, I was unable to get the original solution back, which means it is “no solution” after all.
Why is that?

Its Been A While Since I Did Math But In Most Scenarios When You Solve For An Equation With Only 1 X Variable And You Substitute It Back In It Should Always Be class=

Sagot :

Let's replace every copy of x with 7 and simplify.

[tex]\sqrt{5x+1}+9 = 3\\\\\sqrt{5*7+1}+9 = 3\\\\\sqrt{35+1}+9 = 3\\\\\sqrt{36}+9 = 3\\\\6+9 = 3 \ \text{ .... note the 6 on the left isn't negative}\\\\15 = 3\\\\[/tex]

Which is clearly false. This is probably the set of steps you followed to get "no solution".

Why is there no solution? Well let's subtract 9 from both sides to isolate the square root

[tex]\sqrt{5x+1}+9 = 3\\\\\sqrt{5x+1}+9-9 = 3-9\\\\\sqrt{5x+1} = -6\\\\[/tex]

Recall that the result of a square root operation is never negative. The range of [tex]y = \sqrt{x}[/tex] and [tex]y = \sqrt{5x+1}[/tex] is the set of nonnegative numbers. There is no way we can have the left hand side result in -6

If there was a negative sign out front the square root and we have this instead

[tex]-\sqrt{5x+1}+9 = 3\\\\[/tex]

then the answer would be x = 7

Unfortunately, there isn't such a negative sign, so we stick with "no solutions".

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