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23) 17/30
41) 3/10 because 3/10 + 7/10 = 10/10 or 1.
For this case we have the following quadratic equation:

Where:

Its roots will be given by:

The roots are:

Answer:

The first step to getting this in vertex form would be to put this in proper standard form. This is so that you can split the middle term which is a step of completing the square.