Question

Help please!
|x^2-10x+8|<8

Answer 1

\[\large\rm |x^2-10x+8|<8\]Are you ok with this step? :)\[\large\rm -8<~x^2-10x+8~<8\]

Answer 2

yup. I also got until there, it's after there I don't get.

Answer 3

\[\large\rm -8<~\color{orangered}{x^2-10x}+8~<8\]Let's try to complete the square on the x's.

Answer 4

Remember how to complete the square?
Half of -10 is -5, and squaring the -5 gives us 25.
So 25 is the value that completes the square for us.

Answer 5

Complete the square? oh. OMG. I forgot thanks man!

Answer 6

:D

Answer 7

Oh you got it from there? :D haha

Answer 8

yup! completely forgot about completing the square. Thanks so much :D