No Meeting
Part of the Quadratics & Complex Numbers section of Coddy's Algebra 2 journey. Lesson 36 of 48.
Some lines miss the parabola entirely. Take and . Substituting gives , so .
Its discriminant is , which is , or -8. Negative, so the quadratic has no real solutions, only a pair of complex ones. A meeting point has to sit on the grid, with real coordinates, so there is none: the system has no solution. The line passes below the parabola without touching it, and the complex roots do not matter here, because the question was about points on the plane.
Challenge
Find where the parabola meets the line , or show that they never meet. If no real x works, the quadratic standing with 0 on the right side is your finished answer.
Try it yourself
Find ,
This lesson includes a short quiz. Start the lesson to answer it and track your progress.
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