Question

Please help me solve this it’s so stressful

Answer 1

Explanation:

you are being asked to "Solve a quadratic"

There are various METHODS to do this.

You will learn a few of them

-graphing

-substation

-complete the square

-quadratic formula

in this case the question wants you to solve it using the

Quadratic formula...

Ax^2 + Bx + C = 0 is the quadratic.

your A=-1 B=14, and C=61

you just have to plug in those numbers into:

`-B` ±
`\sqrt{(B^(2)-4AC)/(2A)}`

-14 ±
`\sqrt{(14^(2)-4(-1)(61))/(2(-1))}`

you should end up with 7+
`√(110)` & 7-
`√(110)`

which is -3.49 or 17.49

-3.49 does not make any sense, the 17.49 distance only makes sense for this problem