SOLUTION: equations involving radicals check for extraneous solutions square of a-1-5=a

SOLUTION: equations involving radicals check for extraneous solutions square of a-1-5=a

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Question 253569: equations involving radicals check for extraneous solutions
square of a-1-5=a
Answer by drk(1908) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
I think this is the question:

expand the left side to get

Set this = 0 to get

factor to get

Solve each to get

a = 4

There are no extraneous in this question.
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