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Latest revision as of 23:55, 15 May 2014
The square root property is a method for solving quadratic equations.
Method
First we must convert the quadratic to either the form or
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First format
take the square root of both sides
so the roots are and
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Second format
take the square root of both sides
isolate
and those are the roots.