Asked by tuhituhi

Find the roots of the quadratic equations x^2 - 1/12x -1/12 = 0 ?
Answered by Steve
you can use the quadratic formula, and mess with all those fractions, or you can see that you really have

1/12 (12x^2-x-1) = 1/12 (4x+1)(3x-1)

Now the roots become clear.