SOLUTION: using the quadratic formula solve x^2-2x=5x-2 can you please show me the steps to finding the answer.

Question 64021: using the quadratic formula solve
x^2-2x=5x-2
can you please show me the steps to finding the answer.
Answer by sarahschober(35) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

set the equation equal to 0 by subtracting 5x and adding 2 to both sides

then...

Solved by pluggable solver: SOLVE quadratic equation (work shown, graph etc)

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=41 is greater than zero. That means that there are two solutions: .

Quadratic expression can be factored:

Again, the answer is: 6.70156211871642, 0.298437881283576. Here's your graph:

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