The browser that is used for submitting questions does not permit many mathematical symbols. It is therefore not possible to be sure what the question was. For a quadratic equation of the form y = ax^2 + bx + c, where a, b and c are real numbers and a is non-zero, the discriminant is b^2 – 4ac.
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6^2 -4(3*30) = -96 meaning that the given quadratic expression has no real roots
x3 + 3x2 - 6x - 8 = (x - 2)(x2 + 5x + 4) = (x - 2)(x + 1)(x + 4)
The discriminant is -32.
3x2 + 2x - 8 = 3x2 + 6x - 4x - 8 = 3x(x + 2) - 4(x + 2) = (x + 2)(3x - 4).
(3x2 - 6x)/3x = 3x(x-2)/3x = x-2, for x<>0