Wednesday, 20 December 2017

algebra precalculus - Writing the Piecewise Function?

I have to solve each equation and verify my solution graphically... but first, I would like to create the piecewise for |x22x+2|=3x4 to have a reference to know if my solution is extraneous.



I know that I would need to find the solutions for x22x+2 (Case 1) and x2+2x2 (Case 2), and since it's not factorable, I used the quadratic formula:



[Case 1]
x=2±(2)24(1)(2)2x=2±482


This is where I got stuck... I'd get 12 in the square root which isn't correct, but my math and variables were right. I don't understand what I did wrong?



[edit] Same thing happened when solving Case 2, where I got 4 in the square root.

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