Slacker Steffi......help me!

I know you are probably hanging on OH instead of teaching. So I wanna put you to work! Help me. I cannot use Quadratic formula for this problem. I have to solve by completeing the square, but I keep getting stuck! Help me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh, and OH won't let me type exponents, so the 2 behind the Y's  in the first term are squares.

y2-9y+30=0, if I solve this by completing the square, I move to constant (30) over and am left with
y2-9y = -30. I want to take ½ the coefficient of y, square it, then add it to both sides. That’s the step I have been doing, but it’s messing me up. What do I do?

I'd pull the covers over my head and go back to sleep!! 

i am running screaming from this ahhhhhGGGG

Apparently Steffi ran away screaming too! Humph!

Did you text her?

Oh and I would so run away from that kind of Math too! lol

I didn't text her, but should.

Trust me, I want to run away too. This crap has been killing me all semester. I HAVE to do well on the test tomorrow or I will have to do it all over agin over the summer! UGH!

OK - so I put the information into the Quadratic Eqaution calculator and as you have it written y^2-9y+30 does not work.  I changed the signs around and used y^2+9y-30.  When I did that I got the answer of 2.6 and 11.6.  Check to be sure that you wrote the equation properly.  Sorry if this does not help - but I have not done this in a long time and I was looking to factor - or use the formula.

And to the rest of you.......

Thanks anyways. I am not allowed to use the quadratic equation for this problem. I have to slove the problem by squaring both sides. Which gives an answer with a radical in it.

I HATE ALGEBRA! I could just cry, because I don't think I understand this chapter enough to get a B on my test. *sigh*

Hope this website helps.  http://www.purplemath.com/modules/sqrquad.htm