SOLUTION: Solve the following equation or inequalities x^2 + 5x +7 =0

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Question 173451: Solve the following equation or inequalities
x^2 + 5x +7 =0

Answer by jojo14344(1513)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

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 : .

The discriminant -3 is less than zero. That means that there are no solutions among real numbers.

If you are a student of advanced school algebra and are aware about imaginary numbers, read on.


In the field of imaginary numbers, the square root of -3 is + or - .

The solution is

Here's your graph:

Thank you,
Jojo

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