Question

Solve the equation for x. Enter your answers as radical expressions. Then estimate to one decimal place, if necessary.

Answer 1

Hope you won't be turned off by a correction, but we really need to use the symbol " ^ " to denote exponentiation.

Thus, we have x^2 = 100

Taking the square root of both sides, we get x = plus or minus 10. Verify, please, that both x = -10 and x = +10 satisfy the given equation.