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(x/5)^log_b(5) - (x/6)^log_b(6) = 0

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

In your own work, you divided by x^ln(6) at one point, which would remove any x = 0 solution from your work - before that step x = 0 was still a valid solution to your equations, but after it it wasn't