SOLUTION: How do you write m^6-16m^3+64=0 in quadratic form?

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Question 534253: How do you write m^6-16m^3+64=0 in quadratic form?
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Quadratic form means the highest power of the variable is 2.


In problems like this one note that m^6 = (m^3)^2. So make some other variable, say u, and set u=m^3. Then this equation becomes:


u^2-16u+64 = 0