SOLUTION: What is the answer to negative 1 plus the square root of 1 minus 4(2)(-e^7) and then divide the root by 4?

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Question 292347: What is the answer to negative 1 plus the square root of 1 minus 4(2)(-e^7) and then divide the root by 4?
Answer by jsmallt9(3758) About Me  (Show Source):
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This is just an expression. All you can do with an expression is simplify it.

The best I can tell is that this expression is from the Quadratic Formula. If so, then the entire first part of the expression is divided by 4:
%281+%2B+sqrt%281+-+4%282%29%28-e%5E7%29%29%29%2F4

To simplify this, we can start by multiplying the 4 and the 2 inside the square root:
%281+%2B+sqrt%281+-+8%28-e%5E7%29%29%29%2F4
and the minus in front of the 8 and the minus in front of the "e" cancle each other out:
%281+%2B+sqrt%281+%2B+8e%5E7%29%29%2F4
This is as far as you can go without a calculator. And once you start using a calculator you are then dealing with a decimal approximation for the value of the expression.

"e" is a special, named number like pi. If you calculator does not have a key for "e", then use 2.7182818284590451 (or some rounded of version of this) for "e".