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Cubic factoring: 3x^3 +2x^2 +75x-50=0 solve for x

Postby mrwisdom on Sun Apr 24, 2011 9:10 pm

3x^3 +2x^2 +75x-50=0 solve for x.

If i could get some direction on this i attempted to factor by grouping but no luck.
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Re: Cubic factoring.  TOPIC_SOLVED

Postby Martingale on Sun Apr 24, 2011 11:55 pm

mrwisdom wrote:3x^3 +2x^2 +75x-50=0 solve for x.

If i could get some direction on this i attempted to factor by grouping but no luck.


Good luck with that...

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Re: Cubic factoring.

Postby mrwisdom on Mon Apr 25, 2011 12:43 am

oh boy well this is the question you get in a correspondence book i guess. I was thinking it was a typo because if the 50 was positive instead of negative its much easier.
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