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SAT Question of the Day Explained – November 27, 2014 – Math, Algebra

Today’s SAT question of the day is an algebra question about the following quadratic equation:

y = (x^2) minus (4 times x) + c)

Given that this equation contains the points (-2, 0) and (6, 0), we are asked to find c.

There are multiple ways of solving this, but I will show you the shortest.  The first step is to think about the information we are given: why do they give us these two points?

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