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How many x-intercepts does the graph of the function y= 3x^2 - 6x + 5 have?

How many x-intercepts does the graph of the function y= 3x^2 - 6x + 5 have?-example-1
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Assuming the parabola is in A^2+Bx+C=0, you can determine how many x-intercepts a function has by doing b^2-4ac. If it’s positive, there are two. If it’s 0, there is 1. If it’s negative, there are none.
(-6)^2-4(3)(5)
=36-60
=-24
Therefore there are 0 X-intercepts
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