Question 668261

You seem to be attempting to solve the equation by COMPLETING THE SQUARE. If that's so, then why are you doing step 2? If I'm correct in what you're trying to do, who told you that you had to do step 2? I've never heard of this step when one attempts to solve a quadratic equation by COMPLETING THE SQUARE. 


Step 2: Here I am going to multiply each term by four times the coefficient of the x term.


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