If you just want to find and plot the roots, this brute force approach works:
f = @(x) 2-10*x.*exp(-0.8*x);
froot1 = fzero(f, 1);
froot2 = fzero(f, 10);
fplot(f,[0 10])
hold on
plot([froot1 froot2], f([froot1 froot2]), 'r+')
grid on
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