Khan Academy is a nonprofit with the mission of providing a free world-class education for anyone anywhere. Thank you in advance. Watch Sal work through a basic Solving quadratic equations problem.
My problem is that this isnt even the same parabola as the initial equation indicates.
Well we can just subtract 5 from both sides of this equation right there. Thank you in advance. Check out a video on deriving the quadratic equation if you are interested there are dozens of good explanations on the internet. Khan Academy is a nonprofit with the mission of providing a free world-class education for anyone anywhere.