How do I find the root of a quadratic equation?

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How do I find the root of a quadratic equation?

Usually the easiest way to find the root of a quadratic is to factorise it so you have something a form similar to - (x+2)(x-1)=0.

From here you need to find a value for x that makes each bracket equal to zero. Here we can see our answers are x = 1 and x = -2.

If the equation cannot be factorised our backup method that is slightly more complicated but always correct is to use the quadratic equation.

This is given as x = (-b ± (b²-4ac)^1/2)/2a,

Where a, b and c come from your original quadratic as ax²+bx+c.

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