Jiayang's answer to Jolene's Secondary 3 A Maths question.

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Jefferson Tan
Jefferson Tan
6 years ago
Shouldnt you let 7^y be x? That would be much easier to solve.
Jiayang
Jiayang
6 years ago
Nope. If I let 7^y = x, how shall the student deal with the √x then?
Jefferson Tan
Jefferson Tan
6 years ago
Okay true.. but I think your answer is incorrect you square one side but you didn't square the rest..
Jiayang
Jiayang
6 years ago
What other side? You sub the y i got into the eqn, you’ll find that LHS=RHS.
Jefferson Tan
Jefferson Tan
6 years ago
Okay my bad I saw wrongly haha..