SOLUTION: Samantha was thinking of a number. She told Bill that if he squared her number followed by subtracting 11 times her, and adding 4, then he would get -26. What number(s) could Sa

SOLUTION: Samantha was thinking of a number. She told Bill that if he squared her number followed by subtracting 11 times her, and adding 4, then he would get -26. What number(s) could Sa

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Question 1159338: Samantha was thinking of a number. She told Bill that if he squared her number followed by
subtracting 11 times her, and adding 4, then he would get -26. What number(s) could
Samantha be thinking of?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39623) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
x, the number

x^2-11,.... "her" what?
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