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Welcome.
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We are here today to evaluate our given equation and solve for x using the completing the square method.
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We'll be using the six -step process outline on page 677 of your textbook.
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First, we want to identify the coefficient of our second degree term, and we want to make sure it is equal to 1.
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We can see here that actually the coefficient of our x -square term is equal to 4.
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Step 1 then tells us to divide the entire equation by the coefficient of the second degree term.
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So we're going to divide this entire equation by 4.
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This gives us the equation x squared plus x plus x equals 3 4ths.
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So now once again going back to step 1, we can verify that the coefficient of our second degree term is in fact one.
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Moving on to step two, we want to move all constants to the right -hand side of our equation.
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As we can see here, the problem we've been given already has done that for us.
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So we can move on to step two, or step three rather.
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Step three asks us to identify the coefficient of the first degree term...