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  • Oct 12, 2010, 08:38 AM
    lemon14
    how to compare these numbers?

  • Oct 13, 2010, 06:10 AM
    ebaines

    One way to approach this is to consider what the function looks like. Draw it out and you'll see that as x gets larger the function "flattens out" with a smaller slope. Consequently for values of x greater than 1 the difference between the cube root of (x+1) and the cube root of x is smaller than the difference between the cube root of x and the cube root of (x-1). Which means that:



    Can you take it from here?

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