You can't because it is not a quadratic equation.
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Solve using the quadratic formula
It can be solved by using the quadratic equation formula.
Unfortunately, the equal sign gets lost in the title. Anyway, you can solve this type of equation using the quadratic formula.
By using the quadratic equation formula
For any quadratic ax2 + bx + c = 0 we can find x by using the quadratic formulae: the quadratic formula is... [-b +- sqrt(b2 - 4(a)(c)) ] / 2a