SOLUTION: what are the roots of the equation x^2+8x+3=0 ?

Question 185951: what are the roots of the equation x^2+8x+3=0 ?
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what are the roots of the equation x^2+8x+3=0 ?

Solved by pluggable solver: SOLVE quadratic equation (work shown, graph etc)

Quadratic equation (in our case ) has the following solutons:

For these solutions to exist, the discriminant should not be a negative number.

First, we need to compute the discriminant : .

Discriminant d=52 is greater than zero. That means that there are two solutions: .

Quadratic expression can be factored:

Again, the answer is: -0.394448724536011, -7.60555127546399. Here's your graph:

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