Given and are the roots of the quadratic equation where and are constants.Find the value of and .
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If they are "roots", use substitution. Substitute x = 2 Substitute x = m Solve for p.
One probably should point out that this is linear in 'p' and, without too much difficulty, is solved for 'p'. After that, one could substitute many values for 'x' with relative ease.
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