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Help...cant remember exponent rules when solving equations.

Solve equation for x. If you could show process that would be great! Thanks

10x2 - 11x - 6 = 0
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doodle wrote: Help...cant remember exponent rules when solving equations.

Solve equation for x. If you could show process that would be great! Thanks

10x2 - 11x - 6 = 0
I see TennPaGa already solved it but for the record you can Have Wolfram Alpha solve fairly simple equations for you. It's allowed me to help my daughter with her homework on several occassions....

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=10 ... +-+6+%3D+0
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Ahhh...quadratic equations....I had forgotten those. Thanks for the refresher!
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