Question

Inga is solving 2x2 + 12x – 3 = 0. Which steps could she use to solve the quadratic equation? Select three options.

Answer 1

To complete squares, she must use, in order:

• Third step.
• First step.
• Fourth step.

Which steps could she use to solve the quadratic equation?

Here we have the quadratic equation:

$2x^2 + 12x - 3 = 0$

There are some ways of solving this, the first approach is completing squares, where we can write:

$2(x^2 + 6x) - 3 = 0\\\\2(x^2 + 2*3*x + 9 - 9) -3 = 0$

Here we add and subtract 9 to complete squares and not change the equation. Here we used the third step only.

Now we just complete squares to get:

$2*(x^2 + 6x + 9) - 2*9 - 3 = 0\\\\2(x^2 + 6x + 9) = 3 + 18 = 21\\\\2*(x + 3)^2 = 21\\\\x + 3 = \pm \sqrt{\frac{21}{2} }$

Where the first and fourth steps are also used.

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