SOLUTION: I cannot understand how to do these type of questions at all...Can you please help me and thanks:) Page 575 Number 2 I have to write in standard form and determine the values

Question 146360This question is from textbook Beginning Algebra
: I cannot understand how to do these type of questions at all...Can you please help me and thanks:)
Page 575
Number 2
I have to write in standard form and determine the values of a,b, and c....
x^2 + 6x - 5 = 0
This question is from textbook Beginning Algebra

Answer by orca(409) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Rewrite it in standard form:
x^2 + 6x + (-5) = 0
So
a = 1
b = 6
c = -5
Substituting the values of a, b and c into the quadratic formula

we have

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