Fill in the blanks to make a quadratic whose roots are $1$ and $-1.$ x^2 + ___ x + ___
If there are the two roots, we have that (x+1)(x-1).
This, distributing in, we have
(x+1)(x−1)=x2+0x−1
Thus, the answer is x^2 - 1.
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