Please help me with this logarithmic equation. How do I solve it?

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1 Answer
Dec 25, 2016

No real solution.

Explanation:

The feasible solutions are (x>0)(x(x28x+25)>0) but for x>0 we have x28x+25>0 with minimum at x=4 with value 4284+25=9

Now log(x38x2+25x)log(x)=log(x28x+25)=1 or

x28x+25=e but as we saw previously x28x+259 so no real solutions for this equation.