Thread: Need help completing the square

I'm working on homework for completing the square, and I've hit a wall with the last problem. No matter how many different ways I attack the problem, I end up needing to take the square root of a negative to proceed. Could someone point me in the right direction here?

... which means that your equation does not have a solution.

You're not doing anything wrong.

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Originally Posted by ChrisEffinSmith

I'm working on homework for completing the square, and I've hit a wall with the last problem. No matter how many different ways I attack the problem, I end up needing to take the square root of a negative to proceed. Could someone point me in the right direction here?

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Why not check the discriminant to see if there exists any solutions.





there are no solutions.