Grade 9 – Mathematics Quarter I SOLVING QUADRATIC EQUATIONS BY EXTRACTING SQUARE ROOTS
Objectives: 1. familiarize numbers that are perfect squares; and 2. solve quadratic equations by extracting square roots.
Quadratic Equations that can be written in the form 𝒙 𝟐 = 𝒌 can be solved by applying the following properties: If 𝑘 > 0, then 𝒙 𝟐 = 𝒌 has two real solutions or roots: 𝑥 = ± 𝑘. If 𝑘 = 0, then 𝒙 𝟐 = 𝒌 has two real solutions or roots: 𝑥 = If 𝑘 < 0, then 𝒙 𝟐 = 𝒌 has no solutions or roots: Speaking Mathematically 𝑥 = ± 36 is read as ‘ 𝒙 is equal to the positive or negative square root of 36 ’ 𝑥 − 5 2 is read as “ the square root of the square of the quantity 𝒙 𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒖𝒔 𝟓 ".