SOLUTION: What is the number if the square of that number is increased by 4 times the number, the result is 12?

Question 424631: What is the number if the square of that number is increased by 4 times the number, the result is 12?
Answer by Gersid(33) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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"...if the square of that number (n) is increased by 4 times the number, the result is 12."
Subtract 12 from both sides.
Factor this quadratic equation.
Apply the zero product rule.
or then...
or
The two numbers are 2 and -6
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