SOLUTION: Can you please solve this 3x^2-5x-13=0

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Question 260425: Can you please solve this 3x^2-5x-13=0
Answer by richwmiller(17219)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
This can't be factored with whole numbers
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=181 is greater than zero. That means that there are two solutions: .




Quadratic expression can be factored:

Again, the answer is: 3.07560400784562, -1.40893734117895. Here's your graph:

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