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What is the sum of the solutions to the given equation?
Explanation
The correct answer is . Applying the distributive property to the left-hand side of the given equation, , yields . Applying the distributive property to the right-hand side of the given equation, , yields . Thus, the equation becomes . Combining like terms on the left- and right-hand sides of this equation yields , or . For a quadratic equation in the form , where , , and are constants, the quadratic formula gives the solutions to the equation in the form . Substituting for , for , and for from the equation into the quadratic formula yields , or . It follows that the solutions to the given equation are and . Adding these two solutions gives the sum of the solutions: , which is equivalent to , or . Note that 29/3, 9.666, and 9.667 are examples of ways to enter a correct answer.