document.write( "Question 322200: If you have the solutions: -3 and -2, what would the quadratic equation be? \n" ); document.write( "
Algebra.Com's Answer #230649 by Edwin McCravy(20055)\"\" \"About 
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document.write( "We just do it backwards:\r\n" );
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document.write( "If we had started with a quadratic equation,\r\n" );
document.write( "solved it and found the solutions were -3 and -2, \r\n" );
document.write( "we would have ended up with this:\r\n" );
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document.write( "   x = -3    and   x = -2\r\n" );
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document.write( "Before that, we would have had these two equations:\r\n" );
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document.write( " x + 3 = 0   and   x + 2 = 0 \r\n" );
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document.write( "Before that, we would have had this product:\r\n" );
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document.write( "     (x + 3)(x + 2) = 0\r\n" );
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document.write( "Before that we would have had that FOILed out\r\n" );
document.write( "before it was factored:\r\n" );
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document.write( "      x2 + 5x + 6 = 0\r\n" );
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document.write( "Edwin
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