SOLUTION: How do you use the zero-factoring property when solving a quadratic equation?

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Question 420061: How do you use the zero-factoring property when solving a quadratic equation?
Answer by MathLover1(20849)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

When a product then either OR .
When you have a , and it into two linear factors, then you have that situation.
Then you simply need to solve two linear equations in place of the quadratic equation.
So if you can factor a quadratic as ..it has the same form as and so
either OR
Solving each of these you get that either
OR

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