Answer: The value of a is 1. The value of b is -1. The value of c is 1. The value of the discriminant is -3. The quadratic function will not intersects the x-axis.
Explanation:
The standard form of a quadratic equation is,

The given function is,

It can be written as,

By comparing this equation with the standard form of quadratic equation. we get,



The formula for discriminant is,




The value of the discriminant is -3.
If D<0, it means the function have no real roots.
If D=0, it means function have one real roots.
If D>0, it means function have two real roots.
Since D<0 it means the function have no real roots. So the function will not intersect the x-axis at any point.
The equation of the line is: y=2/-5x + 3 3/5
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Hope this helps.
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The first step is to get rid of those very large numbers. It's going to be very difficult to factor unless we can bring those high numbers down. So lets see if we can factor each term.
So after dividing 49 with every single digit. The only number that divides evenly is 7 and one, and 16 isnt divisible evenly by 7 so that didn't work. Looks like we're gonna have to work with these big numbers.
There is something interesting though about these numbers. 16 and 49 are both perfect squares. 16 is the same as 4^2 and 49 is the same as 7^2. So we can factor the whole trinomial as:

If we were to expand this out as:

and multiply it back into the original form. It would match with the expression we started with. The 4's would multiply back into 16x^2 and the 7's would multiply back into 49.
Additionally 4 * -7 is -28, so you can combine two -28x's into the -56x term in the original trinomial.
Thus, the answer is yes you can, and the answer is:
