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Depends. I took a mid-level calculus class recently because it had been awhile since I'd integrated anything, and the professor had to spend a day reviewing how to factor and divide polynomials when they got to integrals which used trig identities. "Completing the square" was a new phrase to most students.

Everyone knew the quadratic formula, but most people don't pay attention to how formulas are derived, much less remember that sort of thing a few years later. If you want to guess whether an average student knows something, ask yourself, "would it be on the test?"

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