Marvin was completing the square, and his work is shown below. Identify the line where he made his mistake.
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First, let's expand the right side. Now our equation is
Now, we gather all the terms with x in it on the left side, and the numbers without x on the right. We get:
And then we can make this
We divide both sides by 12 to get x on its own, so x = 13/12 or 1.08
Now, we gather all the terms with x in it on the left side, and the numbers without x on the right. We get:
And then we can make this
We divide both sides by 12 to get x on its own, so x = 13/12 or 1.08