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Love by factoring or finding square roots. (x+5)^2 = 36

User ProxyTech
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To find what x is equal to, we need to take the square root of both sides. But, we must note that a square root of a value is both positive and negative. Since the square root of 36 is 6, that means that our equation is:

x + 5 = ±6

That means that x + 5 = 6 or x + 5 = -6

That means that x = 1 or x = -11

User Kurtis Jungersen
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we are given


(x+5)^2 = 36

firstly , we can take sqrt both sides

we will get two equations

First equation is:


(x+5) = -6

we can solve for x


x = -11

Second equation is:


(x+5) = 6

we can solve for x


x = 1

so, we will get


x = -11


x = 1...............Answer

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