SOLUTION: What is the quadratic equation whose roots are -1,5 and passes through the point (1,1). Please show your work.

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Question 952421: What is the quadratic equation whose roots are -1,5 and passes through the point (1,1). Please show your work.
Answer by MathLover1(20849)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
first you are looking for the quadratic equation
since you are given roots ,, you will use zero product theorem to find equation:



and passes through the point (,),so we need a constant to multiply zero product using given point
...........now if you sub in and




giving
and, we have






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