Saturday, August 3, 2013

Solve for x (x - 2)(x + 1) = 4

Notice that we cannot apply the zero product property...yet!

(x - 2)(x + 1) = 4 
x^2-x-2-4=0 
x^2-x-6=0 
(x-3)(x+2)=0 
x=3 or x=-2

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