Question

How do you get the x out from the square root?
11=0.2 sqrt(x+ 4.5/2.6)+5

Answer 1

First solve the equation for the square root. The square both sides of the equation.

Answer 2

do I square the .2 and 5 as well?

Answer 3

You can do it that way, but you are miking it harder than it needs to be. The first step is to solve the equation for the square root. Do you know how to do that?

Answer 4

*making

Answer 5

I thought you square the square root and the 11. to cancel out the square root.

Answer 6

1. Subtract 5 from both sides.
2. Divide both sides by 0.2

Answer 7

but the answer im getting is too big.

Answer 8

When you do that step you have to square the whole side. So it is easier to solve for the square root like nikato said, then square both sides.

Answer 9

What did u get after doing those 2 steps

Answer 10

the 1st 2? I got 30=sqrt(x+4.5/2.6)

Answer 11

I got 827 as my final answer and it just seems really wrong.

Answer 12

Ok, then square both sides

Answer 13

Also, is it x+4.5/2.6 or (x+4.5)/2.6

Answer 14

x+4.5/2.6

Answer 15

what do you mean by square both sides? ive already done that. :/

Answer 16

Squaring both sides will give u

900=x+4.5/2.6

Answer 17

i did that, but it still makes my answer 827.

Answer 18

wait, no it would make it 898.27.

Answer 19

Then, maybe that's ur answer

Answer 20

but its too big for what i need... oh well, thanks for trying.

Answer 21

It's a really nasty number, but if u plug it back in, it actually works