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- 00:00
Thank you We sneak and here's your mathey shmoop du
- 00:05
jour if three x squared plus two Acts all over
- 00:09
3 x plus two equals one than x is equal
- 00:12
to which of the following and hear the potential answers
- 00:16
Aah This has been okay it's asking us to find
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- 00:19
what x equals to make this equation True this looks
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like a pretty messy equation so we gotta simplify things
- 00:24
First The numerator looks like it can be factored in
- 00:27
tow x times three Acts plus 2 and hey look
- 00:32
three x plus two is in the numerator and denominator
- 00:35
which means we can cancel those two out We're all
- 00:38
accesses long as three x plus two isn't zero Three
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Acts Plus 2 is 0 when x equals negative two
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thirds So we have to remember that negative two thirds
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is not a valid solution So we're left with x
- 00:50
equals one and it looks like the answer is c