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Find all solutions to \(7 \sqrt[3]{x} = x + 6\)
 

 Apr 17, 2020
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If we cube both sides of this equation(I couldn't see an easy way out of this), we get:

\(343x = x^3 + 3x^2 * 6 + 3x * 6^2 + 6^3 \)

\(343x = x^3 + 18x^2 + 108x + 216\)

Subtracting 343x on both sides, we get:

\(x^3 + 18x^2 -235x + 216 = 0\)

Realize that the sum of the coefficients is 0, which means that 1 is a root of this polynomial. Then we can factor out x-1 from this.

Doing polynomial division, we get this factored into:

 

\((x-1)(x^2+19x-216)\)

We factor the right hand quadratic into:

\(x^2+19x-216 = (x-8)(x+27)\)

We have then factored our cubic into:

\((x-1)(x-8)(x+27) = 0\)

This gives us our three solutions(by the fundamental theorem of algebra, there should be 3), as :
 

1, 8, and -27

 Apr 17, 2020
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Let

 \(\displaystyle x=y^{3},\)

then

\(\displaystyle 7y=y^{3}+6,\\ y^{3}-7y+6=0, \\ (y-1)(y^{2}+y-6)=0, \\ (y-1)(y-2)(y+3)=0,\)

etc. .

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