Find all function $f:\mathbb Q^+ \rightarrow \mathbb Q^+$ that satisfy $f(x)+f\bigg(\dfrac{1}{x}\bigg)=1$ and $f(2x+1)=\dfrac{f(x)}{2}$

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Find all function $f:\mathbb Q^+ \rightarrow \mathbb Q^+$ that satisfy $$f(x)+f\bigg(\dfrac{1}{x}\bigg)=1$$ and $$f(2x+1)=\dfrac{f(x)}{2}$$ for all $x$ in domain of $f$

My Approach:

Put $x=1$ in $f(x)+f\bigg(\dfrac{1}{x}\bigg)=1$

$\implies$

$f(1)+f(1)=1$

$\implies$ $f(1)=\dfrac{1}{2}$

Now put $x=2$ in $f(x)+f\bigg(\dfrac{1}{x}\bigg)$

we obtain $f(2)+f(\dfrac{1}{2})=1 \cdots \cdots (1)$

Now using $f(2x+1)=\dfrac{f(x)}{2}\cdots \cdots (2)$

Put$x=\dfrac{1}{2}$ in eqation $(2)$

$\implies$ $f\bigg(\dfrac{1}{2}\bigg)=2f(2)$

Using above result in Equation $(1)$ we obtain $f(2)=\dfrac{1}{3}$

In similar fashion we finally obtain $f(x)=\dfrac{1}{1+x}$ For Integers

I want to know Some other method to solve this

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