Squares and Square Roots: The Life Quadratic True or False

1.	Which of the following is not a quadratic equation? -> x² = -1 True False
2.	If the polynomial 4x² + 9x + c is the square of binomial of degree 1, what is c? -> True False
3.	The polynomial x² + 11x + c is the square of which binomial? -> True False
4.	How many solutions are there to the equation x² + 12x = -36? -> more than I care to think about True False
5.	How many solutions are there to the equation x² – 4x = 17? -> two True False
6.	Solve: x² + 14x + 40 = -5. -> x = -3, x = -11 True False
7.	Solve, assuming that a, b, c are constants and c is not zero: cx² + ax + b = 0. -> True False
8.	Solve: 2x² + 5x + 3 = 7. -> True False
9.	If the quadratic equation ax² + bx + c = 0 has discriminant 0, how many solutions does the equation have? -> oh so many True False
10.	A student was asked to solve the equation 3x² + 10x – 11 = 0. They wrote down the following work. Where, if anywhere, did the student make their first mistake? -> The student made no mistakes. True False

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