SOLUTION: if you square my age, then subtract 23 times my age the reult is 50. how old am i?

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Question 635811: if you square my age, then subtract 23 times my age the reult is 50. how old am i?
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Factor and solve the quadratic for . Discard the negative root, unless you think being a negative number of years old makes sense.

John

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