Problem:
Find all values of such that the equation
has a unique solution.
Solution
Solution:
Setting , we have to find all values of such that the equation
has exactly one positive root.
Obviously is not a solution. For the equation has a positive root . It is unique if either or .
In the first case we obtain and in the second one we have , whence and .
Finally, .
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