SOLUTION: Can you help me double check this using the quad formula?: x^2 - 10 - 1 = -10

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Question 86539: Can you help me double check this using the quad formula?:
x^2 - 10 - 1 = -10

Answer by praseenakos@yahoo.com(507)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

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Answer:
Factorisation method



Add 10 to both sides of the equation....





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You can split the middle term as follows...
Here remember that you have to find out two numbers whose sum is -10(that is coefficient of x and whose product is +9(that is the constant term....




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Here (x-9) is common to both the terms....so you can take it outside...


==> (x - 9 ) ( x- 1) = 0


==> either (x-9) =0 or (x-1) = 0


==> x = 9 or x = 1


So the solution is x = 9 or x = 1


Using Quadratic formula...



Question can be written as



then the solution is given by,




where a = 1, b= -10 and c = +9


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So the solution is x = 9 or x = 1



Hope you found the explanation useful......


Regards...

Praseena.




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