Uploaded March 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Many students struggle with equations containing unknown constants. Two strategies will often work to solve these kinds of questions -- plugging in and solving algebraically. Let's see how those approaches apply to a tricky radical equation with a constant.

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