I need help finishing a question. I used the explanation function on the program, but it didn't specify what to do to get the fi

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I need help finishing a question. I used the explanation function on the program, but it didn't specify what to do to get the fi

nal answer. I have attached a picture.
"Find the real solutions. Use the quadratic formula and a calculator."

At the last step, it said to use a calculator to see if the solutions satisfy the equation, but does that mean I need to plug in the whole thing for each x in the original equation? That would take a long time. I tried punching the "(1 plus or minus sqrt (1 + 160pi^2)) / 2" into my calculator, but the answers I got were wrong.

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leva [86] · Answer 1 · 2022-01-10T05:52:16+03:00

I would compute sqrt(1 + 160pi^2) first to get approximately 39.75093337

Add this to 1 and we have 40.75093337

Then divide over 2pi to get a final approximate result of 6.48571248

So x = 6.48571248 is one approximate solution

In short, I computed $\frac{1+\sqrt{1+160\pi^2}}{2\pi}$ only focusing on the plus for now.

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If you were to compute $\frac{1-\sqrt{1+160\pi^2}}{2\pi}$ you should get roughly -6.167402596 as your other solution. Each solution can then be plugged into the original equation to check if you get 0 or not. You likely won't land exactly on 0 but you'll get close enough.