The square of a binomial is written like

In your case, you have
, which implies 
So, we want to write

But our left hand side is

If we add 26 to both sides, we have

Answer: 11 something,i can't really see what your measuring the line from :<
4w = 48
Divide each side by 4. (division property of equality)
w = 12
They added it wrong. They added it like this:

When it shouldve been this:

They just added a place marker in all numbers below 100.