How do I solve this equation with factoring? 3x^2-5x-2=0?
Please explain why! :)

The magnitude, m, of an earthquake is defined to be m=log l/s, where i is the intensity of the earthquake (measured by the amplitude of the seismograph wave) and s is the intensity of a “standard” earthquake, which is barely detectable. what is the magnitude of an earthquake that is 1,000 times more intense than a standard earthquake? use a calculator. round your answer to the nearest tenth.

Thompson and thompson is a steel bolts manufacturing company. their current steel bolts have a mean diameter of 127 millimeters, and a variance of 36. if a random sample of 35 steel bolts is selected, what is the probability that the sample mean would differ from the population mean by greater than 0.5 millimeters? round your answer to four decimal places.

Could somebody me with this radical simplification?