Determine square root of 3 by drawing a straight line

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There is a quadratic function $(x+1) (x-3)$.

Determine the value of the square root of 3 by drawing a suitable straight line

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Observe that $x = \sqrt 3$ satisfies the equation $$f(x) = -2x$$ Here, $f(x) = x^2 - 2x -3 $

Now, If we were to draw the line $y=-2x$, and find it's point of intersection with our given curve, we would then drop the perpendicular from that point to $x$ axis. This would give us the value of $\sqrt 3$