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SAT Math 1.1 Numbers and Operations. How many combinations of beverage and cereal can be made?
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SAT Math: Factoring a Quadratic Equation and Recognizing Undefined Values 1 Views
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In the equation above, at what x-value(s) is y undefined?
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Yeah Whoa Okay Mash bumpers last in this series of
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weird equation ville in the equation above at what X
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values is Why undefined Okay so clearly they're looking at
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this thing X squared minus X minus twelve How does
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that equal Zero And if it does Well then why
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has got to be in the find Right Well when
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faced with a quadratic equation instincts tell us to fact
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door when faced with two quadratic ce a factor even
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more when they're stacked on top of each other like
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some kind of quadratic jenga factor Like your life depended
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on it Let's just do that So we've got top
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thing Expert Police State actually fifteen That's X plus three
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and explode Five there in the bottom thing And we've
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got to be for a foreign three So Yeah X
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plus three and the next minus four So why is
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undefined whenever the denominator is equal to zero So that
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means when X is negative Three And when X is
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for the denominator is here and the problem is undefined
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So that's it Goodbye plan
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