Algebra.Com's Answer #581193 by Alan3354(69443)![\"\"](\"/images/stars/stars-13.gif\")  
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How does this work, what is this called?
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document.write( "If I have a problem like:  for some reason it was brought to me I can break up the 5x like so  and thus x=1/2 and x=-3.
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document.write( "It's called quadratic equation, and equation of degree 2.
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document.write( "The object is to solve for x. (Sometimes it's y or z, or some other variable.)
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document.write( "There's more than 1 way to do that, but the quadratic equation always works.
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document.write( " | Solved by pluggable solver: SOLVE quadratic equation (work shown, graph etc) | \n" );
document.write( "Quadratic equation  (in our case  ) has the following solutons:
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document.write( " For these solutions to exist, the discriminant  should not be a negative number.
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document.write( " First, we need to compute the discriminant :  .
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document.write( " Discriminant d=49 is greater than zero. That means that there are two solutions:  .
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document.write( " Quadratic expression  can be factored:
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document.write( " Again, the answer is: 0.5, -3.\n" );
document.write( "Here's your graph:
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