Thursday, February 19, 2015

Prove that 1 is the solution of the equation 5^x-3^x=2^x

We notice that substituting x by the value 1, we'll verify the
equation, so x = 1 is the solution of the equation.


2^1 = 5^1 -
3^1


2 = 5 -  3


Now, we'll have to
verify if x = 1 is the only solution for the given equation or if there are
more.


We'll divide the equation, both sides, by the greatest
exponential, namely 5^x:


(2/5)^x= 1 -
(3/5)^x


We'll put f(x) = 1 -
(3/5)^x


We'll calculate f(1):


2/5 = 1 -
3/5 


2/5 = (5-3)/5


2/5 =
2/5


The exponential functions (2/5)^x and (3/5)^x are decreasing
functions (the denominator is bigger than numerator), so f(x) is a decreasing function,
too.


If f(x) is a decreasing function, it could have
only one solution x = 1.

No comments:

Post a Comment

How is Anne's goal of wanting "to go on living even after my death" fulfilled in Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl?I didn't get how it was...

I think you are right! I don't believe that many of the Jews who were herded into the concentration camps actually understood the eno...