Quadratic-equation Sentence Examples

The value of such a fraction is the positive root of a quadratic equation whose coefficients are real and of which one root is negative.

In his Treatise of Algebra (1685) he distinctly proposes to construct the imaginary roots of a quadratic equation by going out of the line on which the roots, if real, would have been constructed.

Consider the general quadratic equation ax 2 + bx + c = 0 where a 0.

The quadratic equation x 2 +b 2 =o, for instance, has no real root; but we may treat the roots as being +b-' - I, and - b 1, 1 - 1, if -J - i is treated as something which obeys the laws of arithmetic and emerges into reality under the condition 1 1 - I.

Solve a quadratic equation using factors Errors Identify sources of errors.