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Anyone with the answer? I got 24 but not sure if it is right
I got the same too, only possible solutions for equation |x|=(x-2)(x-3) (after factorizing the original equation) are 2, 3 & 4 and their product is 24.
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Anyone with the answer? I got 24 but not sure if it is right
I got the same too, only possible solutions for equation |x|=(x-2)(x-3) (after factorizing the original equation) are 1, 2, 3 & 4 and their product is 24.


dhyeyd can you please explain how you are getting the 4 solutions! 2&3 i got. But what about 1&4?

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|x|^2 can be taken as x^2 as x^2 will always be non-negative.

Equation becomes,
|x| > (x-2)*(x-3)

2 and 3 satisfies the equation.

We check for below 2 -
1 does not satisfy. 0 does not satisfy. Negative integers do not satisfy.

We check for above 3 -
4 satisfies. [4 > (4-2)*(4-3)]
5 does not satisfy. Anything above 5 would not satisfy.

So, the answer should be 2 * 3 * 4 = 24.
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Anyone with the answer? I got 24 but not sure if it is right
I got the same too, only possible solutions for equation |x|=(x-2)(x-3) (after factorizing the original equation) are 1, 2, 3 & 4 and their product is 24.


dhyeyd can you please explain how you are getting the 4 solutions! 2&3 i got. But what about 1&4?

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1 isn't a solution, it was a mistake from my side. For the other 3 solutions, I checked them using trial & error using a simple logic of minimizing the product. E.g. if we use any negative integer as x then the product will be greater than x, so to minimize the product, at least one of the term should be 1 or 0; The integers 2, 3, 4 satisfies my requirement and thus the solution.
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