SOLUTION: what is the way to solve for b^2+5b-24 and how do you do it?

Question 26426: what is the way to solve for b^2+5b-24
and how do you do it?
Answer by Earlsdon(6294) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Well, you can not really solve for b unless you have an equation. What you have here is an expression and expressions can be simplified or evaluated, but not "solved"
Now, if your problem were stated as an equation such as:
Then this can be "solved" Perhaps you have left something out of your problem statement!
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