SOLUTION: Please help with the following to solve these equations for complex solutions and write answer in standard form x^2-10x+29=0

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Question 267118: Please help with the following to solve these equations for complex solutions and write answer in standard form
x^2-10x+29=0

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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 -16 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 -16 is + or - .

The solution is

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