Question

trying to solve this simple quadratic equation, can any one help find the correct factors to find the solution.
x^2 + x + 6 = 0

Answer 1

id say it has something to do with 3 and 2

Answer 2

what factors of the last number add to get the middle?

Answer 3

Ive tried each possible solution but I cannot come up with one because I cannot place A - sign and come up with a pos 6 at the end

Answer 4

x^2 + x + 6 = 0

this is the correct equation right?

Answer 5

yes

Answer 6

if so we factor it out to be

(x+3)(x+2) = 0; not the rule of math is; anything times zero = zero which implies that when x+3 = 0 or x+2 = 0 we have good answers

Answer 7

so when x=-3 or x=-2 we have y=0

Answer 8

not the rule meant now the rule .... cant type

Answer 9

so ....x = 0

Answer 10

i cant imagine where you come up with that from what i wrote .....

Answer 11

from confusion

Answer 12

so when x=-3 or x=-2 we have y=0

x=0 is nowhere to be read in that.

the answers are: x = -3 and x = -2

but answers dont really help you understand the problem itself

Answer 13

quadratics are not intuitive simply becasue they are curved; and we are used to dealing with straight lines that only have 1 solution

Answer 14

quadratics have at most 2 solutions

Answer 15

sometimes they even have NO real solutions