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re: Don't understand how you get to c = a x^2 + b x

Permalink Submitted by Anonymous on December 22, 2015

I was wondering the same thing. In the diagram I take ax to be the base of the smaller triangle but then where is x in the equation coming from? Are a and x equal?

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