What is C in x^2 + x = 12

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anonymous · Answer

-12. put it in standard form and set it equal to 0

anonymous · Answer

yeah, what's C supposed to stand for?

yttrium · Answer

take note of the general form of a quadratic equation.
$$ax^2 + bx + C = 0$$
in your case it is
$$x ^2+x=$$
so you have to make it
$$x^2+x-12 = 0$$
btw, c refers to constant term

yttrium · Answer

correction on the second equation
$$x^2+x = 12$$

anonymous · Answer

x^2 + x -12=0
standard from is ax^2 + bx + c = 0
a b and c are constants (the opposite of a variable) that are actual numbers.
x^2 is like writing 1x^2 and that 1 is what a would be.

anonymous · Answer

well what if I do -x^2 - x + 12 = 0? now C = 12.

yttrium · Answer

well in reality, we make the leading coefficient as positive. that why we have to make it x^2+x-12=0