VEDIC MATHS-96
VEDIC MATHS
By OMKAR TENDOLKAR
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This is post number 96 from the series of "Vedic maths" blogs. Here in this blog we will learn about "Quadratic Equations-III"
Reference:
We had already learn about "Quadratic Equations-I" in our previous blog. If you have missed my last blog then please visit "VEDIC MATHS-94".
We had already learn about "Quadratic Equations-II" in our previous blog. If you have missed my last blog then please visit "VEDIC MATHS-95".
Special Case of Quadratic Equations—Reciprocals:
Case C
1. Here we have our first sum: x - 1/x = 5/6.
Here again we have to be careful, because there is a minus sign. So we find the factors of 6, which are 1, 2, 3 and 6. We can’t use 1 and 6, because they don’t give us ; so we take 2 and 3 as reciprocals. Since 3/2 is greater than 2/3, we put that first and we have the right-hand side as . So here we’ll 3/2 - 2/3.
Note that the symbol is minus.
So here we’ll split the right-hand side like this:
x - 1/x = 5/6 = 3/2 - 2/3.
The minus sign is important here. So we’ll get x = 3/2 or -2/3.
Answer:
x = 3/2 or x = -2/3.
2. Here we have our first sum: x - 1/x = 45/14.
Here again we find the factors of 14, which are 1, 2, 7 and 14. We can’t take 1 and 14, because they won’t give us 45/14 , so instead, we go for 2 and 7 as reciprocals.
Since 7/2 is greater than 2/7, we put that first and we have the right-hand side as we get is x = 7/2 - 2/7.
So now our sum looks like this:
x - 1/x = 45/14 = 7/2 - 2/7.
The minus sign is important here. So we’ll get x = 7/2 or -2/7.
Answer:
x = 7/2 or x = -2/7.
3. x/(x+3) + (x+3)/x = 15/56.
Here the factors of 56 are 1, 2, 4, 8, 7, 28 and 14. Out of these, we take 7 and 8, because their reciprocals give us . So we have the right-hand side as 8/7 - 7/8
Following the same pattern as in the previous sums, we’ll solve like this:
x/(x+3) + (x+3)/x = 15/56 = 8/7 - 7/8.
x/(x+3) = 8/7
7x = 8x + 24
7x - 8x = 24
- x = 24
x = -24
or
x/(x+3) = 7/8
8x = 7x + 21
8x -7x = 21
x = 21
x = 21
Answer:
x = -24 & x = 21.
4. (5x+9)/(5x-9) + (5x-9)/(5x+9) = 56/45.
Here the factors of 45 are 1, 3, 5, 9 and 15. We use 9 and 5, because their reciprocals subtracted give us 56/45.
Here we’ll split the right-hand side into two reciprocals. So what we get is :
(5x+9)/(5x-9) + (5x-9)/(5x+9) = 56/45 = 9/5 - 5/9.
We’ll now solve to find the two values of x:
(5x+9)/(5x-9) = 9/5
25x - 45 = 45x - 81
- 20x = -81 -45
x = -126/-20
x = 63/10
or
(5x+9)/(5x-9) = 9/5
45x + 81 = -25x - 45
70x = 45 -81
x = 36/-70
x = -18/35
Answer:
x = 63/10 & x = -18/35
The simplicity of this method can be vouched from examples given above.
You may try following examples.
1. x - 1/x = 9/20.
2. x/(x+1) - (x+1)/x = 7/12.
3. (x+1)/(x+2) - (x+2)/(x+1) = 56/45.
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