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What real value of  produces the smallest value of the quadratic t^2 - 9t - 36?
 

 Apr 3, 2021
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This is a bowl shaped parabola due to the positive coeffecient of the xterm

    the minumum will occur at   t = - b/2a   =  -  -9/2 =   9/2    This is the real value which produces the minumum value of the quadratice

       IF you want that minumum value:

                           use this value of 't' in the equation to calculate the minumum value of the quadratic .....

 Apr 3, 2021

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