07-10-2011, 04:32 AM
(07-10-2011, 04:14 AM)Ace Wrote: This is a trinomial which can be turned into a binomial. You'd never really do it the way that BlackChaos showed you.
BlackChaos is unfortunately wrong. Solving for "a" means solving for a value, that value can be anything since you haven't solved for X yet.
The answer for the value of a is actually 1.
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I knew I was overlooking something. I should have converted it to a binomial equation first.