Recent content by sobergeek23

thats stupid because I am my post under my attempt i obviously did try..i only asked for an answer when you made your response complicated..anyway in your last post you said "no because it isn't correct" gee thanks for the help...helpful wouldve been if you posted whatever rule made it not correct..

i couldn't find my other response but is it because the plus sign is there that we can't distribute the squared (x+y)^2 into x^2+y^2?

is it aginst forum policy to give out answers?

yea i got it..is it because the plus sign is in there?

a^2+b^2

learning experience means frustration and anger and deletion of account for me...

why doesn't that reduce?

it can't be a square

we were solving equations where you square both sides

said something like it is understood to be positive or something like that

that was the problem..it just said isolate the variable x..

if i squared both sides it would just be the individual answer

so what's the answer

Homework Statement x^2-y^2=16 isolate the variable x Homework Equations square roots The Attempt at a Solution x^2=y^2+16 x=y+4?

no idea what that means...the first thing u wrote made sense, the rest way over my head..this site won't let me post pictures either otherwise id just upload a pic of the problem