Respuesta :

Examining the equation

We have 2 terms:

[tex]\sqrt{x+2}[/tex] and [tex]\sqrt{4x+1}[/tex]

For the sum of these to equal a negative number, in this case -3, one of these terms would have to be negative.

So what's the problem?

The function [tex]\sqrt{x}[/tex] (square root of x) only returns positive values!

(See the attached image for a graph of [tex]\sqrt{x}[/tex])

Since neither of the terms can be negative, it can't be equal to -3. In other words, no matter what we put as [tex]x[/tex], we can't solve the solution, so we say that the equation does not have any solutions.

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