Quadratic Equation Definition

noun
An equation that employs the variable x having the general form ax2 + bx + c = 0, where a, b, and c are constants and a does not equal zero; that is, the variable is squared but raised to no higher power.
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An equation in which the second power, or square, is the highest to which the unknown quantity is raised.
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Noun

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quadratic equation
Plural:
quadratic equations

Quadratic Equation Sentence Examples

  • The value of such a fraction is the positive root of a quadratic equation whose coefficients are real and of which one root is negative.

  • In his Treatise of Algebra (1685) he distinctly proposes to construct the imaginary roots of a quadratic equation by going out of the line on which the roots, if real, would have been constructed.

  • Consider the general quadratic equation ax 2 + bx + c = 0 where a 0.

  • The quadratic equation x 2 +b 2 =o, for instance, has no real root; but we may treat the roots as being +b-' - I, and - b 1, 1 - 1, if -J - i is treated as something which obeys the laws of arithmetic and emerges into reality under the condition 1 1 - I.

  • Solve a quadratic equation using factors Errors Identify sources of errors.

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