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document.write( "The coefficient of x is 1.\r\n" );
document.write( "Multiply it by .   \r\n" );
document.write( "Square what you get.        \r\n" );
document.write( "Add that to both sides of the equation.\r\n" );
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document.write( "The left side now factors as  which we write\r\n" );
document.write( "simply as , and combine the terms on the right.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Since ,\r\n" );
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document.write( "We take square roots of both sides, remembering the ą on the right:\r\n" );
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document.write( "Now we get two answers, one using the + sign and one using the - sign:\r\n" );
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