The roots of polynomial $ p(x) $ are:
$$ \begin{aligned}x_1 &= -2.1471\\[1 em]x_2 &= 0.1735+0.8456i\\[1 em]x_3 &= 0.1735-0.8456i \end{aligned} $$Step 1:
Write polynomial in descending order
$$ \begin{aligned} 8+9x^2+5x^3 & = 0\\[1 em] 5x^3+9x^2+8 & = 0 \end{aligned} $$Step 2:
Polynomial $ 5x^3+9x^2+8 $ has no rational roots that can be found using Rational Root Test, so the roots were found using qubic formulas.