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Allen is trying to measure the sides for a garden that he is sectioning off. The garden is a quarter of a circle with radius 10ft, and each curved section of the garden has to be of equal length. We're checking his work for the lengths of the bases (when looking at the garden vertically).

This video is part of a quick lesson I showed when our school was still freshly back from Covid (hence the mask wearing, I'll update next time I teach Algebra 2 again). Here, I'm showing my favorite way to think about getting into vertex form for quadratic functions.

Today (Tropical Tuesday), we're going to build the quadratic formula through completing the square and through forced factoring.