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To find the value of x is not easy, but we can do it together.
Welcome back to my channel.
So I would like you to grab your popcorn and let's do this together.
So first of all, we are going to write 54 as 6 plus 48.
Don't ask me why.
Just watch and see what I'm trying to do.
So, x squared plus 6x plus 48x
plus 9 divided by x plus 3
is equal to 14 root x, okay?
Now, I'm looking for something that is factorizable,
and from here,
we can write 6 as 2 multiplied by 3 multiplied by x.
I will explain later, okay?
Then I'm going to bring
this 9 here plus 48x divided
by x plus 3 is equal to 14 root x.
Now, let me explain.
What am I trying to do here?
Remember that x plus y all squared is equal
to x squared plus 2xy plus y squared, right?
So, you can see that we have 2 here, we have 3 here.
Alright?
2 times 3 times x.
And this can be written as 3 squared.
Therefore, I'm trying to bring x
and plus 3 in a bracket to get this one.
Now, this is what I mean.
I have x squared plus 2 brackets 3 multiplied
by x plus 9 is 3 squared plus 48x divided
by x plus 3.
is equal to 14 root x now if you look
at this you'll notice that this is in this form all right
therefore i can write from here
to here as so we can now rewrite
from here to here as x plus 3
all squared plus 48 x divided
by x plus 3 is equal to 14 x 14 root
x rather we have this and we have
this so we can actually simplify them
so we can say let x plus 3 be equal to m if i make these
statements we are going to write this as equation one
and i'm writing somewhere so that even when i
clean it later from here i will still remember
so if x plus 3 is equal to m before we forget or
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continue it means that x plus 3 is m right
so we'll have m squared plus 48 x divided by m
is equal to 14 x now let's multiply we have
m squared plus 48 x plus this will be 14 m
root x okay this will
be minus 14 m root x is equal
to 0 okay now we have another thing to do
we need to break down this minus 14m root x again
so we are going to have m squared now write this
as minus 6m root x and minus 8m root x
then before plus 48x is equal to zero
so let's factorize
here m is common
so we bring out m m bracket m minus
this will be 6 root x then here minus
8 root x is common minus 8 root x bracket
when this is divided by this we have plus
to start with so this is already positive
and m will remain then when this is divided by this
You are going to have minus 6 root x is equal to 0.
Yes, let's multiply.
Minus x times minus 6 is plus 48.
And root x times root x is x.
So we've not changed anything.
Now, moving forward, we have that.
So since this and this are the same, we can write m minus 6 root x
multiplied by m minus 8 root x
is equal to 0.
Okay?
so this means that m minus 6 root x is equal
to 0 and m minus 8 root x is also equal to 0
but recall what we talked about our m right let me stand here even
though i don't feel comfortable
writing because i'm right-handed
so recall that our m what i wrote somewhere that our m is equal
okay still here x plus 3 x plus 3
so i will replace that for the first one i will now have x
plus 3 minus 6 root x is equal
to 0 for here i also have x plus
3 minus 8 root x is equal to 0
okay now if we solve for that we can say again
because we need to simplify this right so we can
say let's root x be equal to n if we say let's root x
be equal to n that means we are going to
have x is equal
to n squared okay all right
so we are going to write
this as here we have x plus 3
right that means n squared plus three
so we have n squared plus three minus six minus six now root
x is n six n is equal to zero is equal to zero now
for the second part let me write this closer
because i need to manage that space
so like i said our x is n squared so i'm going to have
n squared, plus 3,
plus 3, minus 6, minus 6.
Now, root x is n, minus 6n, is equal to 0.
Then, we have the second one.
x is what? n squared.
So, we have n squared,
plus 3, plus 3, minus 8.
Root x is n, is equal to 0.
So if we rearrange this,
this is now in the form of a quadratic equation.
So we're now going to have n squared minus 6n plus 3 is 0.
And for the other side, we have n squared minus 8n plus 3 is 0.
Now, moving forward, we are going to solve
this using the quadratic equation formula, right?
that means that our n is going to be minus minus six
for this which will be plus six
plus or minus square root of minus b squared that is six squared
which is same as six squared right
minus four ac that is four minus one four times one times three
so four times one times three
all over 2a, 2 multiplied by 1.
The same thing here, our n will be,
our b here is minus 8, which is 8,
plus or minus square root of b squared,
that is minus 8 squared, which is written as 8 squared,
minus 4ac, 4 multiplied by 1 multiplied by 3,
everything divided by 2 multiplied by 1.
Alright, now, if we solve the left,
we have n is equal to,
6 plus or minus square root
of 6 squared is 36 minus 4 times 3
is 12 divided by 2 and this one
will give us n is equal to 8 plus or minus square
root of 64 minus 12 divided by 2 so we have n is
6 plus or minus square root
of this will give us 24 right yes divided
by 2 and this will give us
n is equal to 8 plus or minus square root
of 4 minus 2 is 2 6 minus 1 is 5 divided by 2
have you subscribed because i believe this is a very interesting math
so please and i'm going to
write something again remember we said square root of x is equal to n
so i'll write this somewhere
square root of x is n that means x
is n squared so here we have n
is equal to 6 plus or minus
now this same thing as 4 times 6 square root
of 4 multiplied by 6 divided by 2 then for this we have
n is equal to eight plus or minus square root
of now let's simplify 52 so we go into this to give
us 26 so we go into this to give us 13
so i think we have a prime already which is um we have a
perfect square already which is four
so it's going to be four times 13 four times 13 everything
divided by 2 so moving
forward we have n is equal
to this will be 6 plus
or minus 2 root 6
2 root 6 divided by 2 and the other side we
have n is equal to 8 plus or minus 2 root 13
2 root 13 divided by 2 so we have that n
is 2 we go into 6 3 plus or minus root 6 right
i also have n is equal to 8 plus okay sorry 8 divided
by 2 is 4 plus or minus root 13
now remember we are looking for the value of x not n
but also remember that we said root x is
equal to n right that means we have root x is
equal to n that means we can replace n with root
x right so we now have let me stay like this so
we now have root x is equal to 3 plus or minus
root 16. So what do we do next? If we square both sides,
we have x is equal to 3 plus or minus root
16 all squared. The same thing will happen here.
If we do the same thing here, we will have that
root x is equal to 4 plus or minus root 13.
That means x will be 4 plus or minus root 13
squared we are not yet done
but we are almost there
so going forward
from here you have x is
equal to 3 squared is what 9 right plus
or minus 2 times 3 times root
16 root 6 2 times 3 times
root 16, we give us 6 root 6.
Then plus root 6 squared is what?
6. Then for this, we are going
to have x is equal to 4 to the power of 2 is 16 plus
or minus 2 times 4 times root 13 is 8 root
13 then um root 13 squared is 13
so plus 13
so we can write x to be 9 plus 6 is 15
plus or minus 6 root 6 and from here x
is equal to 29 plus or minus 8 root 13
and that is the answer thank you for watching
and see you in my next video bye
