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Help me with this, i have no clue what to do. but the only methods you have the option to use are these: isolate the variable, difference of squares perfect square trinomial, factoring, completing the square and quadratic formula

98 POINTS Help me with this, i have no clue what to do. but the only methods you have-example-1
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Quadratic formula ............
User Arie Osdorp
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2x²=200

dividing both sides by 2

x²=100

x²-100=0

we can write 100 as 10²

x²-10²=0

using the property (a+b)(a-b)=a²-b²

(x+10)(x-10)=0

x+10=0, x=-10

x-10=0, x=10

x=+10 and x=-10

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