How do you use quadratic formula to solve $3x^2 - 8x + 5 = 0$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2015-05-12T20:55:32

A quadratic equation is written in the form:
$ax^2 + bx + c = 0$

The given equation $3x^2-8x+5=0$
Where:
$a=3$
$b=-8$
$c=5$

The quadratic formula can be used to find the roots of any quadratic equation.

$x= (-b+- sqrt(b^2-4ac))/(2a)$

So I encourage you to plug in the values from this equation and simplify.

The answers should be $x = 1 and x= 5/3$

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