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PLZZZ Help!!! The question is " find the zeros of each function by using the quadratic formula."

h(x) = 3x^2-3x+3/4

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Answer:


(1)/(2)

Explanation:

Quadratic formula goes as follows
(-b+√(b^2-4ac) )/(2a) and
(-b-√(b^2-4ac) )/(2a), there is no plus or minus (+/- thingy) sign on here but use both plus and minus on the numerator where I switched the signs.

The equation you give is
3x^2-3x+(3)/(4), to make it nice, multiply everything by 4 to cancel out the fraction and end up with
12x^2-12x+3. So a=12, b=-12, and c=3. Use these values and plug them into quadratic formula.

For the first formula I wrote,
(-b+√(b^2-4ac) )/(2a), you get
(-(-12)+√((-12)^2-4(12)(3)) )/(2(12))=
(1)/(2).

For the second formula,
(-b-√(b^2-4ac) )/(2a), you get
(-(-12)-√((-12)^2-4(12)(3)) )/(2(12))=
(1)/(2).

Always do quadratic formula for both plus and minus to get both zeros. However, in this case, the answer still remained positive. So the zero of this would be just
(1)/(2).

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