Posted by Linda on Thursday, November 10, 2011 at 1:23am.
you can go about it in two ways:
divide by 4 first. You want to divide by 4, because that removes it from the left side of the equation:
(x+8)^2 = 36
(x+8) = ±6
x = -8 ± 6
Or, you can think make the left side a perfect square:
[2(x+8)]^2 = 144
2(x+8) = ±12
x+8 = ±6
x = -8 ± 6
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