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Basically, got a piece of coursework and its all going well apart from this one problem:

I plotted a graph,

(a x^2-b x-c) (e)^((-1/5 dx))

and used (y(x) = (a x^2-b x-c) (e)^((-1/5 dx)) to define it as y(x)

i now have to find the roots (points at which x = 0). I can see 2 on the range of my graph, but when i use fsolve to try and find them, it only gives me 1 value:

> fsolve(y(x) = 0, x)

-0.6902380714

I dont understand why it doesnt give me both? I've only used maple in 1 lecture so i dont know what im supposed to type to find both roots... im sure itd be the same on all the maple versions...

coursework is due tomorrow :ermm:

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Basically, got a piece of coursework and its all going well apart from this one problem:

I plotted a graph,

(a x^2-b x-c) (e)^((-1/5 dx))

and used (y(x) = (a x^2-b x-c) (e)^((-1/5 dx)) to define it as y(x)

i now have to find the roots (points at which x = 0). I can see 2 on the range of my graph, but when i use fsolve to try and find them, it only gives me 1 value:

> fsolve(y(x) = 0, x)

-0.6902380714

I dont understand why it doesnt give me both? I've only used maple in 1 lecture so i dont know what im supposed to type to find both roots... im sure itd be the same on all the maple versions...

coursework is due tomorrow :ermm:

maybe thats the point of the coursework for you to realise maple isn't capable of finding all of them like you want. Same as a calculator, it only gives you positive tan values etc etc when there are -ve as well. Same as square root on a calculator

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maybe thats the point of the coursework for you to realise maple isn't capable of finding all of them like you want. Same as a calculator, it only gives you positive tan values etc etc when there are -ve as well. Same as square root on a calculator

It says on my cwk sheet: 'If it does not give all the roots, check the Help to see how to find them'. Looked through help for hours...not found anything... Done everything else pretty much now and done all the descriptions, just this thats bugging me.

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