If x = 4 4 4 3 x 4 + 4 , then the value of x 4 is
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great solution!!!:D:D..but there's a tiny error in the final statement...
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Thnx @Krishna Ramesh , and please tell me my error. You are talking about x^4 not being negative, right?? I was talking about all the real numbers and not imaginary...
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No, no that statement is correct. You have written that x=4... actually x^4=4
I got the equation upto x^8= 3x^4 +4 Can you please tell How to solve it further??
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Although it looks like an octic(that is,a degree-8)equation(and it is).But if you replace x 4 with y meaning that you put x 4 = y in the above equation (which can be written as ( x 4 ) 2 − 3 x 4 − 4 = 0 )you get y 2 − 3 y − 4 = 0 which has solutions y = 4 , − 1 .But y = x 4 ,so x 4 = 4 , − 1 but x^4 cannot have negative real values(to see this for yourself,draw the graph of x 4 )so x 4 = 4 .Hope you understand what I said.
nice solution
x^1/8=(3x^4+4)^1/64....raise both the sides to power 64 to get x^8-3x^4-4=0 ....(x^4+1)(x^4-4)=0... x^4=-1,4 negative no. is not possible hence 4
Similar to Sonali Srivastava's:
x = 4 4 4 3 x 4 + 4 ⇒ ( ( x 2 1 ) 2 1 ) 2 1 = ( ( ( 3 x 4 + 4 ) 4 1 ) 4 1 ) 4 1
x 8 1 = ( 3 x 4 + 4 ) 6 4 1 ⇒ x 8 6 4 = ( 3 x 4 + 4 ) 6 4 6 4 ⇒ x 8 = 3 x 4 + 4
( x 4 ) 2 − 3 x 4 − 4 = 0 ⇒ x 4 = 2 3 ± 9 − 4 ( − 4 ) = 2 3 + 5 = 4 (since x > 0 )
By taking off all radicals by rising all to the power of 64, we get a quadratic in x^4 and 4 is one of answers
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As we can see that the RHS of the equation is of the power 1/4 and the LHS is of the power 1/2. So, we need to see that if we raise the equation to power 4, it would not do any harm as the LHS will get its too "under roots" removed.
x = 4 4 4 3 x 4 + 4
R a i s i n g b o t h t h e s i d e s t o p o w e r ′ 4 ′
x = 4 4 3 x 4 + 4
R a i s i n g b o t h t h e s i d e s a g a i n t o p o w e r ′ 4 ′
x 2 = 4 3 x 4 + 4
R a i s i n g b o t h t h e s i d e s a g a i n t o p o w e r ′ 4 ′
x 8 = 3 x 4 + 4
This equation has now become quadratic in ' x 4 '. Solving the roots of this equation, we get
x 4 = 2 3 ± 5
Or, x 4 = 4 , − 1
But, since value of x 4 can't be negative, Therefore,
x = 4
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