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Monday, September 4, 2017

No calculus IVT for quadratic.

Suppose f(x)=x2+bx+c and that f(0)<0 and f(1)>0.

Since f is continuous, by the intermediate value theorem there is some c(0,1) such that f(c)=0.

The question here is to prove that in an elementary way, without using any calculus concepts.

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