quick question about c++ thanks

Mark wylie (5)
I don't understand this question fully could someone check the code that I have written to see if it does what the question asks me to do I will now give you the question then my code thanks.

Question:Exercise 5: Two roots of the quadratic equation is calculated by using the formula:

Where a, b and c are real values. The term is called discriminant. Write a program in C++ for the solutions of the quadratic equation for which . The program will calculate the discriminant first. Depending on the value of the discriminant it will do the following:

if the discriminant , it will display the message as follows
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Discriminant (b^2 – 4*a*c) =

Quadratic equation has no real solutions
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if the discriminant , it will display the solutions as follows
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Discriminant (b^2 – 4ac) =
Quadratic equation has two coincided real solutions
X1=X2= (-b/2a) =
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If the discriminant , it will display two solutions as follows:
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Discriminant (b^2 – 4ac) =
The two real solutions are:
X1= (-b+sqrt(b^2 – 4ac)/2a =
X2= (-b-sqrt(b^2 – 4ac)/2a =
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The program has to run at least 3 times to show the three situations.


My code:

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#include <stdio.h>
#include <iostream>
#include <math.h>


// Program made by Mark Wylie

using namespace std;


int main()
{
	int a,b,c;
	double discriminant;
	float root1, root2;

	cout<<" enter the values of a"<< endl;
	cin >> a;
	cout<<" enter the values of b"<< endl;
	cin >> b;
	cout<<" enter the values of c"<< endl;
	cin >> c;

	discriminant = ((b^2)-(4*a*c));

	root1 = ( -b + sqrt( discriminant)) / 2*a ;
	root2 = ( -b - sqrt( discriminant)) / 2*a ;


	 
	
		if (discriminant < 0)
		
			cout<< "Discriminant (b^2 – 4*a*c) = Quadratic equation has no real solutions"<< endl;


		 if (discriminant == 0)
			
			cout << "Discriminant (b^2 – 4ac) = Quadratic equation has two coincided real solutionsX1=X2= (-b/2a) ="<< endl;
		
		 if (discriminant > 0)

			cout << "Discriminant (b^2 – 4ac) = The two real solutions are:X1= (-b+sqrt(b^2 – 4ac)/2a = X2= (-b-sqrt(b^2 – 4ac)/2a ="<< endl;
		
		
	    cin >> root1; 
        cin >> root2; 
	
		system("pause");
	return 0;

}
hamsterman (4538)
well, you should probably print the roots.. (you can write cout << "x1 = " << root1 << ", x2 = " << root2 << '\n';)
also, it would be logical not to calculate the roots if there are none..
and what are lines 46 47 supposed to do?
a b and c should probably be doubles.
the code doesn't loop (am I misunderstanding the task?)
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