-3 feels like cheating.
-3 id the hidden dark version character of the solution, like evil ryu or devil jin.
Doesn’t x also equal -3?
Uhm, actually 🤓☝️!
Afaik sqrt only returns positive numbers, but if you’re searching for X you should do more logic, as both -3 and 3 squared is 9, but sqrt(9) is just 3.
If I’m wrong please correct me, caz I don’t really know how to properly write this down in a proof, so I might be wrong here. :p
(ps: I fact checked with wolfram, but I still donno how to split the equation formally)
You’re correct. The square root operator only returns the principal root (the positive one).
So if x^2 = 9 then x = ±√9 = ±3
That’s why in something like the quadratic formula we all had to memorize in school its got a “plus or minus” in it: -b ± √…(etc)
x^2 = 9
<=>
|x| = sqrt(9)
would be correct. That way you get both 3 and -3 for x.
That’s the way your math teacher would do it. So the correct version of the statement in the picture is: “if x^2 = 9 then abs(x) = 3”
Also math teacher…
“Show your work”
Middle school math memes
