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ilovealgebra

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Registered: 2006-10-02

Posts: 40

quadratics

Use the completed square form to factorise

6x^2 -5x -6

Thanks

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JaneFairfax

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Registered: 2007-02-23

Posts: 6,868

Re: quadratics

If you take the 6 out and write

you can complete the square for the expression inside the brackets.