re: Paul Monday, March 11, 2002 at 8:49 am Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Colin (190 messages posted) >>Get get rid of the 2 by dividing 2x and 24 by the two. This is the bit where your error is. Dividing by 2 gives you: (x squared) / 2 + x = 12 Not that that helps particularly. solution (Using Quadratic formula): x squared + 2x - 24 = 0 x = (-2 +- sq. rt. ((2*2) + (4 * 1 * 24))) / 2 x = (-2 +- sq. rt. (100)) / 2 x = (-2 +- 10) / 2 2 solutions: x = 4, x = -6. Also, ... x squared + 2x - 24 = 0 reduces to, (x - 4)(x + 6) = 0 therefore yielding 2 solutions : x = 4 or x = 6. (I feel like I'm at school again...) Written in response to: Paul (Mrs. Bagley: Monday, March 11, 2002 at 6:30 am) Responses to this message: Damn, a Typo!! (Colin: Monday, March 11, 2002 at 9:00 am) All messages in this thread [show all] Malapropism in Windows Calculator Accessory (Sundar Narayan: Sun, Mar 10, 2002, 12:56 pm) re: Malapropism in Windows Calculator Accessory (Mrs. Bagley: Sun, Mar 10, 2002, 1:29 pm) Mrs. Bagley (John D.: Sun, Mar 10, 2002, 2:17 pm) re: Mrs. Bagley (Paul D: Sun, Mar 10, 2002, 4:07 pm) re: Paul (Mrs. Bagley: Sun, Mar 10, 2002, 6:55 pm) re: Mrs. Bagley (Mrs. Bagley: Sun, Mar 10, 2002, 6:38 pm) re: Mrs. Bagley (Paul D: Mon, Mar 11, 2002, 1:54 am) re: Malapropism in Windows Calculator Accessory (Michael: Mon, Mar 11, 2002, 6:00 am) Paul (Mrs. Bagley: Mon, Mar 11, 2002, 6:30 am) re: Paul (Colin: Mon, Mar 11, 2002, 8:49 am) Damn, a Typo!! (Colin: Mon, Mar 11, 2002, 9:00 am) re: Damn, a Typo!! (Michael: Mon, Mar 11, 2002, 11:03 am) re: Paul A+ (Mrs. Bagley: Mon, Mar 11, 2002, 8:43 pm) re: Malapropism in Windows Calculator Accessory (bill 2: Sun, Mar 10, 2002, 2:50 pm) re: Malapropism in Windows Calculator Accessory (Michael: Mon, Mar 11, 2002, 5:54 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum