It has become somewhat fashionable to have students derive the Quadratic Formula themselves; this is done by completing the square for the generic quadratic equation ax2 + bx + c = 0. While I can understand the impulse (showing students how the Formula was invented, and thereby providing a concrete example of the usefulness of abstract symbolic manipulation), the computations involved are often a bit beyond the average student at this point.
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Step-by-step explanation:
We have the following equation

First, we need to foil out the parenthesis

Now we can combine the like terms

Now, we need to factor this equation.
To factor this, we need to find a set of numbers that add together to get -3 and multiply to give us -4.
The pair of numbers that would do this would be 1 and -4.
This means that our factored form would be

As the first binomial is a difference of squares, it can be factored futher into

Now, we can get our solutions.
The first binomial will produce two complex (Not real) solutions.


So our solutions to this equation are
