Posted by Mary on Sunday, September 12, 2010 at 5:12pm.
When an expression has no real roots, the discriminant is less than zero.
For example,
3x²+kx+2=0
has no real roots when
k²-4*3*2<0
or
k<24
Proceed along the same lines for the given equation.
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