I need to have you stop typing your questions in ALL CAPS. All caps is the electronic equivalent of shouting and is therefore both rude and annoying.
Does not factor over the rational numbers. Therefore you must either complete the square or use the quadratic formula (which is really the same thing because the quadratic formula is just the completion of the square on the general quadratic equation)
For this equation, , , and
The quadratic formula is:
Just insert the numbers and do the arithmetic. Hint when you go to simplify the radical: 52 equals 4 times 13.
