document.write( "Question 796785: Consider the quadratic equation x^2 + 4x + c = 0.\r
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such that

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, then there are two real roots,

and

such that

. Note: The modern way of saying this is that there is one root with a multiplicity of two mostly because students can't seem to get their heads around the idea that two roots is two roots even if they are identical because the quadratic has two real number factors. They just happen to be the same factors because this is the perfect square case.\r
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, then there is a conjugate pair of complex roots,

and

of the form

where

is the imaginary number defined by

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strictly greater than

where

and

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