SOLUTION: How do you solve: x squared plus 5x-500=0

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Question 340515: How do you solve: x squared plus 5x-500=0
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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=2025 is greater than zero. That means that there are two solutions: .




Quadratic expression can be factored:

Again, the answer is: 20, -25. Here's your graph:
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