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Problem
Let . What is the value of ?
Solution 1
By: dragonfly
First of all, lets plug in all of the 's into the equation.
Then we simplify to get
which simplifies into
and finally we get
Solution 2
Consider is negative.
We replace all instances of with :
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See Also
2016 AMC 12B (Problems • Answer Key • Resources) | |
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