What is the area of the smallest square? A) 16 in2 B) 25 in2 C) 36 in2 D) 49 in2 PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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We know for our problem that the zeroes of our quadratic equation are 
and 
, which means that the solutions for our equation are 
and 
. We are going to use those solutions to express our quadratic equation in the form 
; to do that we will use the <span>zero factor property in reverse:
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Now, we can multiply the left sides of our equations:
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Now that we have our quadratic in the form, we can infer that 
and 
; therefore, we can conclude that 
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Now, we can multiply the left sides of our equations:
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Now that we have our quadratic in the form