What is the importance of the quadratic formula?

What statement is true? 2x^2-9x+2=-1

Let hh represent the number of hummingbirds and ss represent the number of sunbirds that must pollinate the colony so it can survive until next year. 6h+4s > 746h+4s> 74 this year, 88 hummingbirds pollinated the colony. what is the least number of sunbirds that must pollinate the colony to ensure that it will survive until next year?

True or false: the graph of y=f(bx) is a horizontal compression of the graph y=f(x) if b< 1