No way! You remember roots and exponents, don’t you? You know that a number to a negative power is the root of that number. It won’t give you the first term of your equation, that’s for sure. You’re getting too anxious: your answer doesn’t need to be this complicated. Click on Factoring Quadratics for a review to get yourself steady again, and maybe mosey on back to the Roots and Exponents lesson for a bit of extra review.
