What is the number of real roots of the above equation ?
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We First notice that x = 1 solves the problem.
We have e x − 1 = 2 − x
Now, out of the two functions, represented on the two sides of the equality, we notice that the function on the left hand side , i.e. f ( x ) = e x − 1 is a monotonically increasing function, and the function on the rhs i.e g ( x ) = 2 − x is a monotonically decreasing function. so, these functions will have common values, i.e. their graph would cut each other, only ONCE . :D