# Solving the symbolic quadratic equation ax2 + bx + c = 0 [closed]

I need to ask Mathematica to solve the symbolic quadratic equation ax2 + bx + c = 0. Does it give you the right answer?

• Could you provide the equation in proper Mathematica code? Do you mean a x^2 +b x+c==0? – Karsten 7. Mar 22 '15 at 23:06
• the command to solve polynomial is called Solve. Try it and if you still can't do it, post what you tried. – Nasser Mar 22 '15 at 23:25
• Mathematica can't answer that question because (I'm batman) it assumes that a,b and c are variables. The answer you are looking for (quadratic formula will not be given) Not directly though you can try this link <Link> in a minute</link> – Jawad_Mansoor Mar 11 '17 at 11:03
• The link is [here] [here]mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/29667/… – Jawad_Mansoor Mar 11 '17 at 11:20

## 2 Answers

try with: Solve[a*x^2 + b*x + c == 0, x]

• @laura, refer to comment above as you will not be able to get quadratic formula direclty from mathematica. – Jawad_Mansoor Mar 11 '17 at 11:03

In Mathematica 10:

==Hello I would like to solve the quadratic equation please


• Being polite to the free-form input parser is very important! – kirma Mar 23 '15 at 21:23