VOCABULARY
Completing the square
Radicals and such
Quadratic Formula
Christmas
100
What is it called when 2 perfect squares are separated by a minus sign?
What is the difference of perfect squares?
100
What is the first thing you should do when completing the square?
What is get an open space in the c-spot.
100
How many different kinds of variables are used in the quadratic formula? i.e. x,y,z...
What is 3 (a,b,c)?
100
How long does an average Christmas tree grow before it is sold?
What is 15 years?
200
This is a term with a square root symbol over it.
What is a radical?
200
What do you get for an equation after you complete the square that is easy to factor?
What is a perfect square trinomial.
200
What is the square root of 75 simplified?
What is 5 square root of 3?
200
Is it ever ok to have a radical in your final answer?
What is yes?
200
Christmas purchases account for what fraction of all retail sales in the U.S.?
What is 1/6?
300
This is what you find when you set each binomial equal to zero and solve.
What is solutions or zeros of the function?
300
What are the solutions to this equation? 4x^2 = 36?
What is 3 and -3?
300
What is the square root of x^2 y^2?
What is xy?
300
You should have no more than this many answers at the end of a quadratic equation solution.
What is 2?
300
North Americans put stockings up on the mantle, what do the Dutch use?
What is shoes?
400
What complex looking equation can you use to solve any quadratic equation? Write this equation on your board.
What is -b +- square root of b2 -4ac/2a???
400
How can you get rid of a squared term in an equation?
What is square root it?
400
If we were to graph a parabola, the zeros of the function would be where the graph hits the what?
What is the x axis?
400
In what country was the quadratic formula developed in the 7th century AD?
What is India?
400
In what state is there a town called Santa Claus?
What is Indiana?
500
What is the name of the values under the square root sign in the quadratic formula?
What is the discriminant?
500
What is the small equation we use every time to complete the square?
What is (b/2)^2.
500
What is the name of the tool used to get radicals out of the denominator, and is where you use the opposite sign?
What is the conjugate?
500
What are the 2 solutions to this quadratic, using the quadratic formula? 2x^2 - 5x - 3
What is 3 and -1/2?
500
In what year were electric christmas lights first used? (within 30 years)
What is 1854?
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