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Exponential Equations

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• Subject: [mg28792] Exponential Equations
• From: "Phil Larson" <PLarson at bju.edu>
• Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 20:18:25 -0400 (EDT)
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Why can't Mathematica find x = -5/2 when executing the following? Is
there a package I should load? It seems so simple.

Solve[3^(2 x)==(1/9)^(x + 5),x]

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