• BlanketsWithSmallpox@lemmy.world
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    1 年前

    … The worst part is I’m decent with math by US standards in school and couldn’t even solve the middle school one with a quick glance.

    Multiply the top by the bottom to erase it. Reverse the square root of something. + Or - threw me right off…

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      Cause the middle school one is the quadratic formula. You use it to factor 2nd degree polynomials. You don’t solve for a, b, and c, you just plug them in.

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      It is the quadratic formula. It already is the solution. The problem is any quadratic of the form ax²+bx+c=0