SOLUTION: Please help me solve this problem by completing the square: {{{ 2h^2-5h+4=0 }}}.

Question 269820: Please help me solve this problem by completing the square: .
Answer by drk(1908) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
step 1 - factor out 2 from the first and second term to get

the blanks are waiting for certain numbers.
step 2 - take (1/2) of the middl term and square it. Put that number in the first blank.

step 3 - squaring it gives us 25/16, but we multiply this by 2 since there are 2 groups of these. We get 50/16. Now put this number into the other blank space to get

step 4 - rewrite the trinomial as a binomial squared and simplify the right side to get

step 5 - divide by 2 and reduce to get

step 6 - take a square root to get

step 7 - add 5/4 to get

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