Completing the square part three

So now we can complete the square to solve quadratic equations with positive and negative coefficients for the $x$ term. But what if the coefficient for the $x^2$ term is greater than 1?

The standard form of a quadratic equation is $ax^2 + bx + c = 0$ where $a$ , $b$ and $c$ are positive or negative constants.

We have learnt to solve equations where $a = 1$ and $b$ is positive or negative but what if $a$ is greater than $1?$ We haven’t tried solving this situation yet.