You can put this solution on YOUR website! The quadratic formula gives the solutions to any equation of the form . Take the coefficient values from your equation and put them into the formula:
Then do the arithmetic. Generally, when you are just solving an equation that is not part of a word problem involving measurements, you leave the answer in radical form (unless the radical turns out to be a perfect square). Just remember to take the square root of any perfect square factors of the number under the radical. For example, if you had , that is the same as .
