PreCalculus One :: 2006-2007 :: Shubleka Name______________________________

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1. Solve each equation. Show all your work. Remember to check for extraneous roots!
i) | x 5 | 45
ii) | 13 x  3 | 0
iii) | x  43 | 8
iv) 5 | 3x  4 | x 1
v) | 2a  7 | a  4

2. Justify your reasoning either by solving the equation or in words.

i) Construct an absolute value equation whose only root is x  12 .
ii) Construct an absolute value equation that does not have any roots.

Thou shalt not answer questionnaires

Or quizzes upon world affairs,
Nor with compliance
Take any test. Thou shalt not sit
with statisticians nor commit
A social science.
"Under which lyre" in Collected Poems of W H Auden