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Piranha
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I need help with q5 (a)

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Here is one possible approach. In red ink is “the square of half the coefficient of x” which we must introduce for the purpose of completing the square.
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Part b is a “hence” question and we must use the results from part a to write the working. In other words, we are not allowed to directly input the values into the quadratic formula.