Thread: Find solutions

Find all real-number solutions. Round your result(s) to the second decimal place. Verify that your results satisfy the equation.

1.)



My answer is:



2.)



my answer:



Are the answers right?

For the first, how about b = -3? Remember when you take a square root, you get two answers (generally; not if the number you're taking the root of is 0, I guess.)

Okay. What about the second problem? Was my answer correct? I was really unsure of it.

Yep, I also got .61.



so:



which is .61, rounded to the nearest hundredth.