Melody

Thank you for your opinion and for your active imagination Nauseated. 

There you go, I changed to a musical kangaroo but he is a bit blurry and the frame has been cut off a bit.  

How do you like that one?

I shall ponder this very important matter more.

(Or was it really the Rainbow Lorikeet that you liked.  I have them in my garden   )

Yes, okay, I will consider it.     

I only changed to my new one because CPhill called me a dinosaur.  (That is what Zegroes used to call me)

 How rude.    LOL

I am only kidding,  CPhill and I (and Zegroes) are great mates.   (That is Australian slang for very good friends)

They would/could never offend me :))  

Hi Tenacious,

If you know what you want to learn then we can help point you in the right direction.  There are heaps of good resources out there and we love to help out when people get stuck. 

hi Tenacious

Okay lets take a look    

7x^2+10x-360

I am looking for 2 numbers that multiply to give  7*-360 = -7*360    I already know that one will be pos and the other neg because when they are multipied together the answer will be negative.

and the two numbers have to add to give +10     That is positive so the the bigger one will be positive.

They are only 10 apart so the numbers are quite close.

I did play around with this but it was just too horrible so I am going to take a different tact

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I am going to look at

7x^2+10x-360=0

I am just going to start by looking at the discriminant of the quadratic formula - that is the bit under the square root.

$$\triangle = 100+4*7*360 = 10180$$    This is not a perfect square so there are no rational roots.

So none of those answers are correct!

The calc is on the home page :)

tan (a )=1.45          (Ill assume a is in degrees)

arctan 1.45=a              arctan is the same as inverse tan.

I will enter it as           atan(1.45)

$$\underset{\,\,\,\,^{\textcolor[rgb]{0.66,0.66,0.66}{360^\circ}}}{{tan}}^{\!\!\mathtt{-1}}{\left({\mathtt{1.45}}\right)} = {\mathtt{55.407\: \!711\: \!312\: \!49^{\circ}}}$$

ok Dragonlance that is good thinking.  You are right, you can learn a lot by watching and paying attention.  

You do not need to use your voice to learn, you are right :)

Rosala and I have always got a voice.  We could never be silent, could we Rosala?  LOL