SOLUTION: find the roots of 2x^2-5x+1=0 ???? thanx

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Question 26199: find the roots of 2x^2-5x+1=0 ????
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Solved by pluggable solver: SOLVE quadratic equation with variable
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=17 is greater than zero. That means that there are two solutions: .




Quadratic expression can be factored:

Again, the answer is: 2.28077640640442, 0.219223593595585. Here's your graph:

Hope this helps!

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