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Explain why the roots of a quadratic equation are complex if the value of the discriminant is less than 0.

Explain why the roots of a quadratic equation are complex if the value of the discriminant-example-1
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This is because there are no real roots, but there are exactly two "imaginary" or hypothetical roots. Which implies that the root can either be positive or negative.

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