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Identifying Partition Numbers in an Operations Model

An inventory analyst is reviewing a cost-bound operations model represented by the inequality 12+4x2<3x\frac{1}{2} + \frac{4}{x^2} < \frac{3}{x}, where xx is the batch size in hundreds of units. As part of the standard algebraic procedure to solve this inequality, the analyst must identify all the zero partition numbers after combining the terms into a single rational expression. List the three partition numbers that are found by setting the numerator and denominator of the combined expression to zero.

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