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Helga [31]
3 years ago
14

Find all real zeros of 4x^3-20x+16

Mathematics
2 answers:
Pani-rosa [81]3 years ago
5 0

Answer:

  {1, (-1±√17)/2}

Step-by-step explanation:

There are formulas for the real and/or complex roots of a cubic, but they are so complicated that they are rarely used. Instead, various other strategies are employed. My favorite is the simplest--let a graphing calculator show you the zeros.

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Descartes observed that the sign changes in the coefficients can tell you the number of real roots. This expression has two sign changes (+-+), so has 0 or 2 positive real roots. If the odd-degree terms have their signs changed, there is only one sign change (-++), so one negative real root.

It can also be informative to add the coefficients in both cases--as is, and with the odd-degree term signs changed. Here, the sum is zero in the first case, so we know immediately that x=1 is a zero of the expression. That is sufficient to help us reduce the problem to finding the zeros of the remaining quadratic factor.

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Using synthetic division (or polynomial long division) to factor out x-1 (after removing the common factor of 4), we find the remaining quadratic factor to be x²+x-4.

The zeros of this quadratic factor can be found using the quadratic formula:

  a=1, b=1, c=-4

  x = (-b±√(b²-4ac))/(2a) = (-1±√1+16)/2

  x = (-1 ±√17)2

The zeros are 1 and (-1±√17)/2.

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The graph shows the zeros of the expression. It also shows the quadratic after dividing out the factor (x-1). The vertex of that quadratic can be used to find the remaining solutions exactly: -0.5 ± √4.25.

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The given expression factors as ...

  4(x -1)(x² +x -4)

Rzqust [24]3 years ago
4 0

Answer:

Step-by-step explanation:

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