How do you solve $2sin^2x+3sinx+1=0$ and find all solutions in the interval $[0,2pi)$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2016-09-14T19:27:47

$x= (7pi)/6 or (11pi)/6 or (3pi)/2$

We may identify this as a quadratic equation in $sinx$ and factorise it as a trinomial to obtain the solutions as

$(2sinx+1)(sinx+1)=0$

$thereforesinx=-1/2 or sinx=-1$

$therefore x= (7pi)/6 or (11pi)/6 or (3pi)/2$

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