A cookie recipe needs 1 1/3 cups of flour to make 1/2 batch of cookies. How much flour is needed to make 1. batch of cookies?
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However, upon plugging these solutions back into the equation, you get
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(assuming you're looking for real solutions only). So, we call an extraneous solution, and the complete solution set (over the real numbers) is .
This suggests two solutions,
However, upon plugging these solutions back into the equation, you get
which checks out, but
does not because