CEMC Euclid, 2008

Algebra Difficulty 3.0 AMC 10/12 Prove it Canada

Determine all values of $k$ , with $k \neq 0$ , for which the parabola $y = kx^2 + (5k+3)x + (6k+5)$ has its vertex on the $x$ -axis.

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