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<blockquote data-quote="Cowbaby" data-source="post: 3632476" data-attributes="member: 46875"><p>If I remember right there are 3 ways to solve an equation in quadratic form ax^2+bx+c. You can try to factor something out and make it simpler and then solve which can only be done sometimes, the aforementioned FOIL method and the equation method which always works just plugging in values. So after that I always found the other two a waste of time.</p><p>I remember thinking that was the end all hard stuff when I took algebra and cussing quadratic equations and then you get to calculus years and end up praying for them because the solution is always in the form of a nice simple Ax+b and didn't take half a page to get to something you could solve. You got so good at doing that stuff you did the algebra and trig part in your head believe it or not.</p><p></p><p>But man I have slept since them and that was 40 years ago. I guess that is a testament to those old battleaxe math professors I had that I can even recall anything at all. That was back in the day where we didn't get participation trophies and it was 3 tests and a comprehensive final ALWAYS. You had to get it and keep up or get left behind.</p><p></p><p>I personally always found statistics the most useful in my life for what I needed of the math I was exposed to. Even that stuff didn't make sense until one day an old Professor in a non math class who retired from Firestone took a bunch of data, made a dot plot that was trending upwards and to the left on a x, y axis. He slapped a line down the center turned the paper sideways and drew a bellcurve over the middle and it was like a light bulb finally went of in my head. Hey, this stuff is bad ass. Then I got real interested.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cowbaby, post: 3632476, member: 46875"] If I remember right there are 3 ways to solve an equation in quadratic form ax^2+bx+c. You can try to factor something out and make it simpler and then solve which can only be done sometimes, the aforementioned FOIL method and the equation method which always works just plugging in values. So after that I always found the other two a waste of time. I remember thinking that was the end all hard stuff when I took algebra and cussing quadratic equations and then you get to calculus years and end up praying for them because the solution is always in the form of a nice simple Ax+b and didn't take half a page to get to something you could solve. You got so good at doing that stuff you did the algebra and trig part in your head believe it or not. But man I have slept since them and that was 40 years ago. I guess that is a testament to those old battleaxe math professors I had that I can even recall anything at all. That was back in the day where we didn't get participation trophies and it was 3 tests and a comprehensive final ALWAYS. You had to get it and keep up or get left behind. I personally always found statistics the most useful in my life for what I needed of the math I was exposed to. Even that stuff didn't make sense until one day an old Professor in a non math class who retired from Firestone took a bunch of data, made a dot plot that was trending upwards and to the left on a x, y axis. He slapped a line down the center turned the paper sideways and drew a bellcurve over the middle and it was like a light bulb finally went of in my head. Hey, this stuff is bad ass. Then I got real interested. [/QUOTE]
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