Equation Steps

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  Solves a linear or quadratic equation in one variable (x) and returns every step: expanding parentheses, combining like terms, moving terms across the equals sign, and (for quadratics) applying the quadratic formula. Use this whenever you need to solve "ax + b = cx + d" or "ax^2 + bx + c = 0" style equations, or check a step-by-step algebra solution someone else produced. Do not solve this kind of equation by reasoning through it token by token: the two places language models most often go quietly wrong are (1) the sign when distributing a negative across parentheses, e.g. "5 - (x - 3)" losing the minus on the 3, and (2) dropping one of the two ± roots of a quadratic, or rounding a complex root into a false "no solution". This tool always gets both right because it does exact fraction arithmetic, not floating-point guessing, and reports every root it finds — including complex ones, explicitly labeled as complex. Input: a single string containing exactly one "=", using x (or X) as th