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document.write( "Work the problem backwards.\r\n" );
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document.write( "You would end up with\r\n" );
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document.write( "x = 1, x = 2\r\n" );
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document.write( "Before that you would have had:\r\n" );
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document.write( "x - 1 = 0 and x - 2 = 0\r\n" );
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document.write( "Before that you would have had\r\n" );
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document.write( "(x - 1)(x - 2) = 0\r\n" );
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document.write( "And before that you would have had\r\n" );
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document.write( "x² - 3x + 2 = 0\r\n" );
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document.write( "So the simplest polynomial of \r\n" );
document.write( "lowest degree you could have had \r\n" );
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document.write( "x² - 3x + 2\r\n" );
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