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Solve the Quadratic Equation $3x^2+5x-2=0$ .

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Lesson Parent:

Problem:

Answer:

$-2$ and $\frac{1}{3}$

Solution:

The first step in solving our Quadratic Equation is to find $a$ , $b$ , and $c$ . In this particular problem we have $a=3$ , $b=5$ , and $c=-2$ .

So now our solutions are of the form

So let's do the algebra:

So now our two solutions are