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yogeshsheth, in your computation you equated 4d-8 to 0. But you can also equate it to any number since 1 raised to any number is still 1.


Hermione its given that c and d are numbers and greater than 1. So
if x>1 then only x^0=1.
Thus have equated 4d-8=0.
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Got it. Many thanks :-D



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