## When Quadratic Formula is Used

With elementary algebra, quadratic formula is used for the solution of a quadratic equation. You can find many ways that you can use to solve this problem without using the quadratic formula like graphing, completion of the square or factoring while using the quadratic formula maybe most convenient method. The quadratic equation looks like ax2+bx+c=0.  With this equation, x stands for unknown but a, b, with C should be constant, and A should not be zero. Someone may verify that the quadratic formula does satisfy quadratic equation through inserting the first number in the last number.

The solution found with the quadratic formula is known as the root for a quadratic equation.  In geometry, such roots can represent the value of x which is the parabola given will cross at the axis of X. The formula can yield zero of different parabola while quadratic formula can give axis to the symmetry of a parabola. This is normally used in order to determine the number of the zero which the quadratic equation does have.

The formula may get derived from the simple application with a technique application needed to complete a square. This is why; a derivation can be sometime left like the exercise of the students who wish to experience the rediscovery of the formula.

A quadratic equation can be in the form to complete a square when it is applied. You may add the constant on the two sides of an equation like the left-hand side which become the complete square.  The terms should be rearranged at a right-hand side so that we can obtain the common denominator. When the square had been completed, then the square root of the two sides have to be found and then isolating the x to get the quadratic formula.

The solution of a quadratic equation can be gotten by using different alternatives of the derivation with the minor differences, and this is through manipulating a. Some of the old sources may use the alternative of parameterization for the equation by using b with a magnitude of the half of a common number.  Even if the results can be different from the first solution, however, they are also equivalent.

Without the need to go in the parabolas like the geometrical objects of the cone, the parabola will be the curve which is being described as the second degree of the polynomial.

The early method to solve the quadratic equation was done in the geometry.   The Babylonian cuneiform tablet had the problems that are reducible in solving a quadratic equation. Egyptian Berlin Papyrus that dated back in the middle kingdom had some solution for a two-term equation.   In Greek, the mathematician Euclid was using the geometric method in order to solve the quadratic equation in the Elements Book 2.  The laws of the quadratic equation do appear in Nine Chapters on Mathematical Art circa from China. A Greek mathematician Diophantus in the work he did on the arthmetica, he solved some quadratic equations which are recognizable to the algebraic done by Euclid. The solution he used was able to give one root, regardless if positive roots were used.