SOLUTION: Please help; Use the discriminant to determine weather the following equations have solutions that are: A) two different rational solutions b) two different irrational soluti

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Question 409681: Please help;
Use the discriminant to determine weather the following equations have solutions that are:
A) two different rational solutions
b) two different irrational solutions
c) exactly one rational solution
D) two different imaginary solutions
25x^2=10x-1

Answer by edjones(8007) About Me  (Show Source):
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25x^2=10x-1
25x^2-10x+1=0
b^2-4ac The dicriminant.
100-4*25*1
=100-100
=0 Exactly one rational solution.
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Ed