Nice trick question.

Check this question i get from harward website.

I like the solution. Please try.
Becasue I have casue this mathematician to leave, i will give some good question now :) :D

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chetan wahi ·

This is same place wehre mathematician used to "copy" his questions from ;)

haha

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Lokesh Verma ·

good question chetan.

I will have to see this site. The question is definitely worth a look :)

If we canget more questions that are good from this site it will help a lot :)

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Двҥїяuρ now in medical c ·

1/2

is it the ans??

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Lokesh Verma ·

yes abhi.

But I am not very sure if that is the only answer!

Most of the time there is only one answer to such a question. This one i am not 100% sure..

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Двҥїяuρ now in medical c ·

bhaiya...

we have to to solve dis one

x4-2x2+x=1/16....[7]

one of the solutions is 1/2 obviously.....

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iitimcomin ·

I SAW SIMILAR QUESTION WEN I WAS PREP. FOR BOARD XAMS[10 STD] [3] .. IM SERIOUS ........ ONLY THING IT WAS √2+√2+√2 ...BLAH BLAH..... [1].... HOW DID THIS CUM TO HARWARD???????????

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Двҥїяuρ now in medical c ·

anyway the other three solutions are

Thanks to Microsoft Math

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Lokesh Verma ·

yes ..

good work abhirup

but out of these i think we cansay that the -ve value and the value where x>1 will not satisfy.

I am not 100% sure of the 3rrd value. but i think that will be possible.

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