SOLUTION: Find all real or imaginary roots of 5x^2+6x+5=0

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Question 625614: Find all real or imaginary roots of 5x^2+6x+5=0
Answer by reynard2007(52) About Me  (Show Source):
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Just use the quadratic formula x+=+%28-b+%2B-+sqrt%28+b%5E2-4%2Aa%2Ac+%29%29%2F%282%2Aa%29+ in solving this.  
Once you plug in all the values, you should come up with something like this:
x=%28-6%2B-sqrt%28%286%29%5E2-4%285%29%285%29%29%29%2F2%285%29
Simplify that and you will get -1 and -1%2F5 as the roots of the expression.