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algebra intermediate

Problem

What is the sum of all possible solutions of ?
Solution
Knowing that , we immediately reduce the problem to finding the sum of all possible solutions of . Seeing that this is a quadratic whose linear coefficient is 0, the solutions sum to .

To find the solutions, we can rewrite , so the solutions are .
Final answer
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