You can put this solution on YOUR website! It really depends on whether you mean or . You could also have meant but that reduces to the absurdity that , so I am discounting that possibility.
Case 1:
Let , then
In standard form: .
This factors to: so or
But so or meaning:
or
However, since we converted to a higher degree equation in order to solve this, we may have introduced an extraneous (and therefore incorrect) root. Check:
Checks.
Does not check. Extraneous root.
Therefore the solution set is
Case 2:
Add to both sides:
Square both sides:
Standard Form:
Factor:
Hence or
Again, since we squared both sides in the solution process, we have the possibility of an extraneous root.
