SOLUTION: Write a quadratic equation having each of the following solutions -1/2 and 3/4

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Question 170211: Write a quadratic equation having each of the following solutions
-1/2 and 3/4

Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Since the solutions are -1/2 and 3/4, this means that

or


or Multiply both sides of the first equation by 2. Multiply both sides of the first equation by 4.


or Get every term to the left side


Use the zero product property to join the two equations.


FOIL


Combine like terms.



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Answer:


So the quadratic with the solutions -1/2 and 3/4 is

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