When I plug what I get for y back into the original Eq. to check it, it doesn't pass. I did something wrong somewhere but it all seems right to me. Where did I go wrong?
You made a mistake in going from the first line to the second: you divided by ##3(1+x^2)## but did not distribute the division to the ##2xy^4## term. Your second line should look like
There are two things I don't understand about this problem. First, when finding the nth root of a number, there should in theory be n solutions. However, the formula produces n+1 roots. Here is how. The first root is simply ##\left(r\right)^{\left(\frac{1}{n}\right)}##. Then you multiply this first root by n additional expressions given by the formula, as you go through k=0,1,...n-1. So you end up with n+1 roots, which cannot be correct. Let me illustrate what I mean. For this...
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This is the attachment, the steps to solution are pretty clear. I guess there is a mistake on the highlighted part that prompts this thread.
Ought to be ##3^{n+1} (n+2)-6## and not ##3^n(n+2)-6##. Unless i missed something, on another note, i find the first method (induction) better than second one (method of differences).