document.write( "<A HREF=/cgi-bin/jump-to-question.mpl?question=625504>Question 625504</A>: <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> How you solve this problem by using the quadratic formula?<BR>\n" );
document.write( "The 100, 140 is having me confused.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "3x^2-2x+1=0 </SPAN>\n" );
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document.write( "You are confused?  So am I.  The numbers 100 and 140 are never part of the quadratic formula solution to the given equation.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "For starters, notice that <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\LARGE (-2)^2\ - 3(4)(1)\ =\ -8\ <\ 0\">\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "so your roots are conjugate pair of complex numbers.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "The roots of\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "<IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\LARGE \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ ax^2\ +\ bx\ +\ c\ =\ 0\">\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "are given by:\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "<IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\LARGE \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ x\ =\ \frac{-b\ \pm\ \sqrt{b^2\ -\ 4ac}}{2a}\">\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Just plug in the numbers and do the arithmetic.  Just remember, <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\LARGE i^2\ =\ -1\">\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "John<BR>\n" );
document.write( "<IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\LARGE e^{i\pi}\ +\ 1\ =\ 0\"><BR>\n" );
document.write( "My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it<BR>\n" );
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