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Thanks for the response!

Hey! Thanks for the reply! I have what formal education I received during high school. I can solve that equation, and I appreciate the attempt at gauging my aptitude. In fact, I'm only slightly above that level. Algebra 2 was where things began to fall apart (I remember radicals and imaginary numbers being particularly pesky), though I also had trouble with some Algebra 1 material.

Thanks, Cap'n Refsmmat. And, elfmotat, I laughed hard when I read your comment because I have had derivatives explained to me by the mathematically proficient, and I still have no idea what they are.

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