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i dont know how to do this
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Solving this equation gets us to:
-4 = 8
A false statement (contradiction), -4 is never equal to 8.
This means no matter what value for 'p' you put you will always get a false statement '-4 = 8', or with other words, the above equation has not solutions. That is why p is element of the empty set: