Question: using maple to solve equations that have no algraic solution

I'm completely new to maple, and I'm trying to solve some equations that have no algebraic solution but should be straightforward to solve with numerical methods. I'd be most grateful if anyone could offer some advice on how to do this. For example, I'd like to solve the following two equations for p: 2^(1-p)+(1-x)^(1-p)/(1-p) and x^(2-p)-y^(2-p))/(x-y) = (a^(2-p)-b^(2-p))/(a-b) The attached worksheet contains my unsuccessful attempts. View 4985_equations.mw on MapleNet
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