SOLUTION: solve 2x^2 - 3x - 2 = 0 using quadratic formula

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Question 200226: solve
2x^2 - 3x - 2 = 0 using quadratic formula

Answer by Edwin McCravy(20054)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
solve
using quadratic formula

It could be solved easier by factoring like this:





 or 

 or  or 

But you are told specifically to do it by the
quadratic formula.  So this is what we do
there:

The solution to

 is



You must memorize that!

In your problem



, , 

So substituting:











That's two solutions

1.   

2.   

So you see we get the same solutions as we did 
when we factored it.

Edwin

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