SOLUTION: Need help!! x² - 5x + 2 = 0

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Question 170532: Need help!!
x² - 5x + 2 = 0

Found 2 solutions by josmiceli, zandrad:
Answer by josmiceli(19441)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

Complete the square. It works like this:
Subtract from both sides

Now take one-half of the co-efficient of ,
square it and add this to both sides.


The left side is a perfect square. Rewrite it.


Now take the square root of both sides

answer 1
and, also, since square root is both (+) and (-)
answer 2

Answer by zandrad(1)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
-5, 2
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