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Greatest possible value?

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by neerajkumar1_1 » Wed Oct 06, 2010 8:17 pm
the greatest possible value for x will be when y is minimum...

so let y=0, such that y^4 is min...

so x^4 = 100
now closest integer for x we get is 3, where 3^4 = 81 and is closest to 100...
4 will be bigger than 100...
Hence some non-integer value above 3 and less than 4 will give the greatest possible value...

hence x lies between 3 and 6

IMO: B
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