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The roots of a mathematical expression

Yahely Levy
Posted 20 hours ago

Hello everyone,

I entered the following algebraic expression in the Wolfram|Alpha's search engine: enter image description here

It gave me the following values as the roots of the expression: enter image description here enter image description here

What do these "roots" mean? I've seen in step-by-step solutions that the roots are obtained when when the expression equals zero. Is this true for this example as well?

Thanks in advance,

Yahely

POSTED BY: Yahely Levy
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Yes, roots are obtained by setting the expression equal to zero. When you have many variables, there are usually several ways to express all the possible roots. W|A is showing one of them in the first "pod" (four lines; not sure why the 4th line gets an extra "Root" header).
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