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Thank you We sneak in and here's your smoked cheese

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You were brought to you by the quadratic formula it's

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quadratic systematic hydra matic and it's hardly a watch grease

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last night All right five x minus one minus three

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expert equals seven And which of the following answers choices

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correctly solved for acts with the quadratic formula And here

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the potential answers So quadratic formula how do we love

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the let us count the ways one okay Yeah we're

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done counting well if we're going to do anything with

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quadratic formula we always need our equation to be set

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equals zero so let's do that for wei take five

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x minus one minus three x squared equals seven subtract

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seven from both sides and get five Acts minus 8

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minus 3 x squared equals zero also it's going to

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cause far fewer headaches if you put this thing in

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order of descending terms so let's rewrite it as negative

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three x squared plus five x minus eight equals zero's

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like that and we know that minus three is are

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a coefficient five is our vehicle efficient and negative eight

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is our sea coefficient if you have the quadratic formula

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memorize on boy we sure hope you do Then we

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can just plug in our coefficients and it'll give us

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x equals negative five plus or minus the square root

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of five squared minus four times negative three times negative

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eight all over two times negative three when we don't

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even have to simplify all that nonsense because we already

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have an exact match for that in our answer choice

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