Quadratic Equations

• Recall that the roots are:

[ -b ± ? (b2 - 4ac) ] / 2a

• The discriminant is (b2 - 4ac). If this is

  • positive, then there are two real roots
  • zero, then there is only one real root
  • negative, then there are imaginary roots

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