SOLUTION: What's are the steps to deriving a quadratic formula, and can you explain how you did each step?

Question 428435: What's are the steps to deriving a quadratic formula, and can you explain how you did each step?
Answer by richard1234(7193) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Start with the general form and divide both sides by to get . To complete the square, we want the constant term to be or so we add to both sides to get

. The left side factors to so the equation is equivalent to

Taking square root of both sides,

<-- and there's the quadratic formula.
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