The article in the fifth issue of our journal in 1983, titled "A Simple Method for Compiling Radical Equations," states that the equation
"will produce a quartic equation after squaring twice, which may be quite troublesome to solve." In fact, this equation can be solved using a simpler method.
Solution
Solve the equation
-
and , from (1) we can get
This indicates , i.e., .
We get ,
Similarly, we can get (2), and solve .
From the above handling, we can summarize a unified solution method:
Let be polynomials:
The equation
yields
Solving (A) and (B) together, we can find or , and the equation can be simplified into a rational equation.
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