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| Extraneous Solution Spurious Solution A solution of a simplified version of an equation that does not satisfy the original equation. Watch out for extraneous solutions when solving equations with a variable in the denominator of a rational expression, with a variable in the argument of a logarithm, or a variable as the radicand in an nth root when n is an even number. 
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