SOLUTION: Solve by completing the square. m^2-(49/2)m=1/2 the solutions are? please help me solve.

SOLUTION: Solve by completing the square. m^2-(49/2)m=1/2 the solutions are? please help me solve.

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Question 262792: Solve by completing the square.
m^2-(49/2)m=1/2
the solutions are?
please help me solve.
Answer by drk(1908) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Here is the original; question

step 1 - rewrite this as

the blanks are waiting for numbers.
step 2 - take 1/2 of the middle term and square it to get

step 3 - rewrite the left side as a binomial squared and simplify the right sides to get

and then

step 4 - take a square root of both sides to get

step 5- add 49/4 to get

we end with
x ~ 24.52
or
x ~ -0.02
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