Completing the Square 5

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Lesson Description:

Part 5 of Showing how to the complete the square to solve quadratic equations.

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Questions answered by this video:
  • How do you solve quadratic equations by completing the square?
  • How do you solve 2x^2 + 5x + 4 = 0 by completing the square?
  • How do you solve 2x^2 - 3x + 5 = 0 by completing the square?
  • Staff Review

    • Currently 4.0/5 Stars.
    A couple of more quadratic equations are solved with all work shown and explained in this video. The method used is completing the square. The leading coefficient is again not 1, but this is easily taken care of by dividing the entire equation by the leading coefficient.