A pair of pants at Cool Topic originally cost $59. They are on sale for $32. What is the percent of change, rounded to the nearest whole number?

Given:

Given that Mrs. Galicia’s solution for the equation.

We need to determine whether Mrs. Galicia’s solution is correct or not.

Also, we need to determine the correct solutions.

Mrs. Galicia’s solution:

Step 4:

Step 5:

After step 4, Mrs. Galicia’s did not take square root on both sides to determine the value of x.

Thus, Mrs. Galicia’s made in mistake in step 5, by solving the equation without taking square root on both sides.

Hence, Mrs. Galicia’s solution is wrong.

Correct solutions:

The equation is

Solving, we get;

Completing the square, we have;

Taking square root on both sides, we get;

Thus, the values of x are given by

and

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Thus, the correct solutions are x = 9 and x = -1