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Fill in the blanks to make a quadratic whose roots are $1$ and $-1.$
x^2 + ___ x + ___

 Nov 12, 2023
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A quadratic with roots 1 and -1 could be written as

(x-1)(x+1) = 0

Expand the brackets and we get:

x^2 +0x -1 = 0 

 

So, the solution is 0 and -1

 Nov 13, 2023

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