document.write( "Question 1207450: Show that the product of the roots of a quadratic equation is c/a.\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "I see the word product in the application. This tells me to multiply two quadratic formulas and simplify to get c/a. \r
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basically, you show the expression of one root times the other root and then show that it simplifies to c/a.\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "the distributive law states that (a + b) * (a - b) equals:
\n" ); document.write( "a * (a - b) + b * (a - b) which equals:
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