1. If a house cost $200,000 in Las Vegas in 2012 and there was a 20.7% increase in houses from 2012 to 2013, what is the price o
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Answer:
The sum of the roots is 0.5
Step-by-step explanation:
<u><em>The correct question is</em></u>
What is the sum of the roots of 20x^2-10x-30
we know that
In a quadratic equation of the form
The sum of the roots is equal to
in this problem we have
so
substitute
<u><em>Verify</em></u>
Find the roots of the quadratic equation
The formula to solve a quadratic equation is equal to
substitute
The roots are x=-1 and x=1.5
The sum of the roots are
----> is ok