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Math help needed, Freshman math Vanity
pandemoniumreigns

Posted on 09/27/2010 6:56:57 PM PDT by pandemoniumreigns

OK I need some math help anybody.


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KEYWORDS: math; quadraticformula
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To: pandemoniumreigns

Just use the quadratic formula Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadratic_formula#Quadratic_formula

I would also suggest that you spend more time studing, probably much more. In math, you have to put in the time and the effort. There’s no way around this. But if you work out all the problems, and do it again before each test, it becomes relatively easy to get an A grade. Take it from someone who knows. Try it.


61 posted on 09/27/2010 8:17:31 PM PDT by pelican001
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To: dsrtsage

i^2 = -1, dope.


62 posted on 09/27/2010 8:21:01 PM PDT by pelican001
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To: Ouderkirk

In Advanced HS algebra, the Quadratic formula can be used for any quadratic equation.


63 posted on 09/27/2010 8:33:32 PM PDT by Thunder90 (Fighting for truth and the American way... http://citizensfortruthandtheamericanway.blogspot.com/)
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To: Hoodat
Dang, still got it wrong. Forgot to divide the second part by 2. How embarrassing. I should have used pencil and paper.

5 ± √35

64 posted on 09/27/2010 9:32:06 PM PDT by Hoodat (.For the weapons of our warfare are mighty in God for pulling down strongholds.)
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To: Senator Pardek


65 posted on 09/27/2010 9:42:01 PM PDT by Hoodat (.For the weapons of our warfare are mighty in God for pulling down strongholds.)
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To: pelican001

uhhh....isn’t that what I wrote?


66 posted on 09/27/2010 9:53:45 PM PDT by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ...In the US the number is 54%)
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To: dsrtsage

Logic? No, it was all semi-irrational math. That’s what they teach nowadays in all the Ivy League schools.


67 posted on 09/27/2010 10:08:13 PM PDT by bvw
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To: dsrtsage

Then surely YOU will be interested in hypercomplex numbers.

See also http://mathworld.wolfram.com/HypercomplexNumber.html

I’m looking to see if Wolfram has psychotic numbers defined. Evidently not. Strange, as algebras employing psychotic numbers are employed by the Federal Reserve in calculating money supply.


68 posted on 09/27/2010 10:15:59 PM PDT by bvw
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To: dsrtsage
I've got a similar proof where 1 = -1. If my recollection is correct, it goes something like this:

1 = 1
-1 = -1
-1/1 = -1/1
-1/1 = 1/-1

Cross multiply:
1*1 = (-1)*(-1)

Take square root of both:
√[1*1] = √[(-1)*(-1)]
1 = -1

69 posted on 09/27/2010 10:16:15 PM PDT by Hoodat (.For the weapons of our warfare are mighty in God for pulling down strongholds.)
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To: pandemoniumreigns
Sorry Willie...

At least once a year a Mensa-level smartass kid tries to get Freepers to do his homework for him.

Hasn't worked in the last ten years, that I know about...

70 posted on 09/27/2010 11:27:41 PM PDT by Publius6961 ("In 1964 the War on Poverty Began --- Poverty won.")
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To: bvw

nothing is worth posting unless it is funny...but subtleties in mathematics are not funny, unless they are


71 posted on 09/28/2010 12:23:41 AM PDT by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ...In the US the number is 54%)
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To: JRandomFreeper

Albert Einstein said that as a young man, he didn’t think theoretical physicists needed to know any advanced mathematics. He was famously “bad at math”. Of course standards differ. He had mastered calculus by the age of 15. In college Minkowski failed him, in part because he never attended class. Minkowski was one of the most ardent opponents of offering him a job as an instructor at his university. Minkowski and Einstein later reconciled.

Of course, going to an all boys Katlick school we had fewer distractions. I don’t know if I would have gotten through sophmore year in a coed school. (If I went to almost any public school these days, I fear the inanity of it would fustrate me well past tolerance.)


72 posted on 09/28/2010 2:32:36 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (The naked casuistry of the high priests of Warmism would make a Jesuit blush.)
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To: Thunder90
In Advanced HS algebra, the Quadratic formula can be used for any quadratic equation

However it does not always yield whole number answers, which is always the point in HS math.

73 posted on 09/28/2010 12:45:47 PM PDT by Ouderkirk (Democrats...the party of Slavery, Segregation, Sodomy, and Sedition)
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