How can you use the quadratic formula to complete a square?

2 answers:

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It has become somewhat fashionable to have students derive the Quadratic Formula themselves; this is done by completing the square for the generic quadratic equation ax2 + bx + c = 0. While I can understand the impulse (showing students how the Formula was invented, and thereby providing a concrete example of the usefulness of abstract symbolic manipulation), the computations involved are often a bit beyond the average student at this point.

notka56 [123]2 years ago

5 0

<span><span>Step 1 Divide all terms by a (the coefficient of x2).</span>Step 2 Move the number term (c/a) to the right side of the equation.<span>Step 3 Complete the square on the left side of the equation and balance this by adding the same value to the right side of the equation.</span></span>

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