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In terms of a single variable, say "y", you can only have terms in y2, y and constants. So z-4 + 3z-2 + 5 = 0 can therefore be considered a quadratic equation for z-2, because you can substitute it by y. All other forms that do not follow this pattern are not quadratics.

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