#Calculus

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worldly stag
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Confused on a problem

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worldly stag
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I don't know exactly where to start

worldly stag
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I got 5/2 for the x value and +- 3.791438 for the two y values

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But it says it’s wrong

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Got sqrt((x-1)^2+y^2)

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Then sqrt((x-1)^2+(20+6x^2/4))

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Found d/dx

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5x-2

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Found 5/2 for the x value as it equals zero

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Plugged it in to the original equation and got the 3.79.1438 for y

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But it says it’s wrong so idk what I did wrong

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wait nvm I see my fuckup

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messed up the algebra for finding the zero of 5x-2 = 0

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2/5 not 5/2

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