SOLUTION: If i have roots or solution m and n, what can i do to identify the standard form of the given roots?

Question 890611: If i have roots or solution m and n, what can i do to identify the standard form of the given roots?

Answer by KMST(5328) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
IN GENERAL:
A quadratic equation is an equation of degree , so you know that there will be an somewhere.
If you know that and are solutions (or roots) of a quadratic equation,
you can write a quadratic equation with those solutions as
.
That is the equation in factored form.
If you multiply the factors and and simplify the result,
you get a more elegant quadratic equation that your teacher will like better.
There are infinite quadratic equations with those roots (or solutions).
You can transform a quadratic equation into an equivalent one
(one with exactly the same solutions, no more or less solutions, no different solutions)
by multiplying both sides of the equation by a number other than zero:
Take any , and
---> --->
(If you multiplied both sides times zero you would end up with that is not much of an equation).

EXAMPLE:
For example, if the solutions or roots of a quadratic equation are and , I would write
---> ---> ---> ---> --->
All those equations are equivalent, but the last one is the simplest and most elegant of them.
I could multiply both sides times a non-zero number, let's say , to get an elegant but unnecessarily complicated equation:
.

EXTRA:
Also, with the same roots I can write equations of a degree higher than (not quadratic),
by multiplying both sides times some polynomial, like or .
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