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algebra junior

Problem

Two nonzero real numbers and satisfy Find all possible values of

Enter all possible values, separated by commas.
Solution
We solve for in the equation Adding to both sides gives or If then we have which cannot be true, so we can safely divide by to get Then, substituting our expression for we get which is the only possible value of the expression.
Final answer
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