Evaluate 225x^-4-34x^-2+1=0

$225 x^{- 4} - 34 x^{- 2} + 1 = 0$

Simplify each term.

Rewrite the expression using the negative exponent rule $b^{- n} = \frac{1}{b^{n}}$ .

$225 \frac{1}{x^{4}} - 34 x^{- 2} + 1 = 0$

Combine $225$ and $\frac{1}{x^{4}}$ .

$\frac{225}{x^{4}} - 34 x^{- 2} + 1 = 0$

Rewrite the expression using the negative exponent rule $b^{- n} = \frac{1}{b^{n}}$ .

$\frac{225}{x^{4}} - 34 \frac{1}{x^{2}} + 1 = 0$

Combine $- 34$ and $\frac{1}{x^{2}}$ .

$\frac{225}{x^{4}} + \frac{- 34}{x^{2}} + 1 = 0$

Move the negative in front of the fraction.

$\frac{225}{x^{4}} - \frac{34}{x^{2}} + 1 = 0$

Find the LCD of the terms in the equation.

Finding the LCD of a list of values is the same as finding the LCM of the denominators of those values.

$x^{4}, x^{2}, 1, 1$

Since $x^{4}, x^{2}, 1, 1$ contain both numbers and variables, there are two steps to find the LCM. Find LCM for the numeric part $1, 1, 1, 1$ then find LCM for the variable part $x^{4}, x^{2}$ .

The LCM is the smallest positive number that all of the numbers divide into evenly.

1. List the prime factors of each number.

2. Multiply each factor the greatest number of times it occurs in either number.

The number $1$ is not a prime number because it only has one positive factor, which is itself.

Not prime

The LCM of $1, 1, 1, 1$ is the result of multiplying all prime factors the greatest number of times they occur in either number.

$1$

The factors for $x^{4}$ are $x \cdot x \cdot x \cdot x$ , which is $x$ multiplied by each other $4$ times.

$x^{4} = x \cdot x \cdot x \cdot x$

$x$ occurs $4$ times.

The factors for $x^{2}$ are $x \cdot x$ , which is $x$ multiplied by each other $2$ times.

$x^{2} = x \cdot x$

$x$ occurs $2$ times.

The LCM of $x^{4}, x^{2}$ is the result of multiplying all prime factors the greatest number of times they occur in either term.

$x \cdot x \cdot x \cdot x$

Simplify $x \cdot x \cdot x \cdot x$ .

Multiply $x$ by $x$ .

$x^{2} \cdot x \cdot x$

Multiply $x^{2}$ by $x$ by adding the exponents.

Multiply $x^{2}$ by $x$ .

Raise $x$ to the power of $1$ .

$x^{2} \cdot x^{1} \cdot x$

Use the power rule $a^{m} a^{n} = a^{m + n}$ to combine exponents.

$x^{2 + 1} \cdot x$

Add $2$ and $1$ .

$x^{3} \cdot x$

Multiply $x^{3}$ by $x$ by adding the exponents.

Multiply $x^{3}$ by $x$ .

Raise $x$ to the power of $1$ .

$x^{3} \cdot x^{1}$

Use the power rule $a^{m} a^{n} = a^{m + n}$ to combine exponents.

$x^{3 + 1}$

Add $3$ and $1$ .

$x^{4}$

Multiply each term in $\frac{225}{x^{4}} - \frac{34}{x^{2}} + 1 = 0$ by $x^{4}$ to eliminate the fractions.

Multiply each term in $\frac{225}{x^{4}} - \frac{34}{x^{2}} + 1 = 0$ by $x^{4}$ .

$\frac{225}{x^{4}} x^{4} - \frac{34}{x^{2}} x^{4} + 1 x^{4} = 0 x^{4}$

Simplify the left side.

Simplify each term.

Cancel the common factor of $x^{4}$ .

Cancel the common factor.

$\frac{225}{x^{4}} x^{4} - \frac{34}{x^{2}} x^{4} + 1 x^{4} = 0 x^{4}$

Rewrite the expression.

$225 - \frac{34}{x^{2}} x^{4} + 1 x^{4} = 0 x^{4}$

Cancel the common factor of $x^{2}$ .

Move the leading negative in $- \frac{34}{x^{2}}$ into the numerator.

$225 + \frac{- 34}{x^{2}} x^{4} + 1 x^{4} = 0 x^{4}$

Factor $x^{2}$ out of $x^{4}$ .

$225 + \frac{- 34}{x^{2}} (x^{2} x^{2}) + 1 x^{4} = 0 x^{4}$

Cancel the common factor.

$225 + \frac{- 34}{x^{2}} (x^{2} x^{2}) + 1 x^{4} = 0 x^{4}$

Rewrite the expression.

$225 - 34 x^{2} + 1 x^{4} = 0 x^{4}$

Multiply $x^{4}$ by $1$ .

$225 - 34 x^{2} + x^{4} = 0 x^{4}$

Simplify the right side.

Multiply $0$ by $x^{4}$ .

$225 - 34 x^{2} + x^{4} = 0$

Solve the equation.

Substitute $u = x^{2}$ into the equation. This will make the quadratic formula easy to use.

$u^{2} - 34 u + 225 = 0$

$u = x^{2}$

Factor $u^{2} - 34 u + 225$ using the AC method.

Consider the form $x^{2} + b x + c$ . Find a pair of integers whose product is $c$ and whose sum is $b$ . In this case, whose product is $225$ and whose sum is $- 34$ .

$- 25, - 9$

Write the factored form using these integers.

$(u - 25) (u - 9) = 0$

If any individual factor on the left side of the equation is equal to $0$ , the entire expression will be equal to $0$ .

$u - 25 = 0$

$u - 9 = 0$

Set $u - 25$ equal to $0$ and solve for $u$ .

Set $u - 25$ equal to $0$ .

$u - 25 = 0$

Add $25$ to both sides of the equation.

$u = 25$

Set $u - 9$ equal to $0$ and solve for $u$ .

Set $u - 9$ equal to $0$ .

$u - 9 = 0$

Add $9$ to both sides of the equation.

$u = 9$

The final solution is all the values that make $(u - 25) (u - 9) = 0$ true.

$u = 25, 9$

Substitute the real value of $u = x^{2}$ back into the solved equation.

$x^{2} = 25$

${(x^{2})}^{1} = 9$

Solve the first equation for $x$ .

$x^{2} = 25$

Solve the equation for $x$ .

Take the square root of both sides of the equation to eliminate the exponent on the left side.

$x = \pm \sqrt{25}$

Simplify $\pm \sqrt{25}$ .

Rewrite $25$ as $5^{2}$ .

$x = \pm \sqrt{5^{2}}$

Pull terms out from under the radical, assuming positive real numbers.

$x = \pm 5$

The complete solution is the result of both the positive and negative portions of the solution.

First, use the positive value of the $\pm$ to find the first solution.

$x = 5$

Next, use the negative value of the $\pm$ to find the second solution.

$x = - 5$

The complete solution is the result of both the positive and negative portions of the solution.

$x = 5, - 5$

Solve the second equation for $x$ .

${(x^{2})}^{1} = 9$

Solve the equation for $x$ .

Remove parentheses.

$x^{2} = 9$

Take the square root of both sides of the equation to eliminate the exponent on the left side.

$x = \pm \sqrt{9}$

Simplify $\pm \sqrt{9}$ .

Rewrite $9$ as $3^{2}$ .

$x = \pm \sqrt{3^{2}}$

Pull terms out from under the radical, assuming positive real numbers.

$x = \pm 3$

The complete solution is the result of both the positive and negative portions of the solution.

First, use the positive value of the $\pm$ to find the first solution.

$x = 3$

Next, use the negative value of the $\pm$ to find the second solution.

$x = - 3$

The complete solution is the result of both the positive and negative portions of the solution.

$x = 3, - 3$

The solution to $x^{4} - 34 x^{2} + 225 = 0$ is $x = 5, - 5, 3, - 3$ .

$x = 5, - 5, 3, - 3$

Evaluate 225x^-4-34x^-2+1=0

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