8x - 2y² = 12
- 2y² = -8x + 12 subtracted 8x from both sides
y² = 4x - 6 divided both sides by -2
|y| = [tex] \sqrt{4x - 6} [/tex] took square root of both sides
y = +/- [tex] \sqrt{4x - 6} [/tex] eliminated the absolute value
