Factor out a greatest common factor
25x^3+10x^2+5x

I read this as -5e⁻⁴ˣ⁺²+3=½log₁₀(x²+1).

If this is not right the steps below can guide you to a possible solution when the correct formula is used.

My calculator is a Casio fx-85GT PLUS which has a function facility (MODE 3: TABLE).

I input the function: -5e⁻⁴ˣ⁺²+3-½log₁₀(x²+1). I assumed that log was log to base 10 rather than natural log ln.

The facility asks me to input a start value, end value and step value. I chose -10, 10 and 1 initially.

After a few seconds of evaluating a table of results the calculator showed me the results of plugging in x=-10 up to 10 in steps of 1.

The results showed the evaluation for each of the 21 values and I looked for the sign of the result to change.

For x=0 the result was -33.95 approx and for x=1 it was 2.1728 approx. So between 0 and 1 there is a zero, a solution for x.

I returned to the function and changed the parameters to start=0, end=1, step=0.1 to begin the next evaluation.

This time the sign change occurred between x=0.6 and 0.7.

I returned to the function with parameters: start=0.6, end=0.7, step=0.01.

The sign change occurred between 0.63 and 0.64, the start and end parameters with step=0.001 for the next iteration.

The solution is between 0.633 and 0.634.

Repeat the process one more time with step=0.0001. The sign change was between 0.6338 and 0.6339 so the solution to three dec places is 0.634.

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