Eric Nicholas K's answer to Chung Khai Shi's Secondary 4 A Maths Singapore question.

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Eric Nicholas K
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Here I am taking the case as the power is alpha, which can take any real value.
Eric Nicholas K
Eric Nicholas K
4 years ago
In this case, z = 8, and since the product xy is 0, either x or y must be 0 while the other number can go up infinitely large, so there is no defined maximum value because the sun goes to infinity.
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4 years ago
Yup. Since the question asked for largest possible value , seems to infer that it's some value to be found so that's why I took the power as 2