SOLUTION: Yuck! I am having so many problems tonight! Here goes Solve by extracting roots. Round answers to two decimal places. 1.5x^2 = .7x^2 + 26.2. This is what I am doing and I keep comi

Question 13949: Yuck! I am having so many problems tonight! Here goes Solve by extracting roots. Round answers to two decimal places. 1.5x^2 = .7x^2 + 26.2. This is what I am doing and I keep coming up with wrong answers. I subtracted the .7 from both sides and came up with .8x^2 = 26.2. My final answer was x=32.75. I divided the .8 from both sides. However, back of the book has a completely different answer
Answer by Earlsdon(6294) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
You had everything right as far as you went, but...
When you got to:
and you correctly divided both sides by 0.8, you should have got:
not , so now you have to take the square root of both sides to find x.

approximately.
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