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10-111.

Jenny and Gina were trying to solve . They knew they would have to square the equation to get rid of the radicals, but when they tried it, they got , which did not look much easier to deal with. Gina had an idea.

Let's start by putting the radicals on opposite sides of the equation and then squaring.” she said. Her work is shown at right.

But there's still a radical!” she exclaimed, disappointed.

“That's okay,” said Jenny, “there's only one now, so we can get the term with the radical by itself and then square everything again.”

  1. Follow Jenny's advice and solve this equation.

  2. Use Jenny and Gina's method to solve .

See part (a).


One of these does not check.