What is the leading coefficient of the function f(x)= 3x^5+6x^4-x-3

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Natali5045456 [20]3 years ago

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3. The leading coefficient of the function f(x)= 3x⁵+6x⁴-x-3 is 3.

For the function f(x)= 3x⁵+6x⁴-x-3 , the highest power of x is 5, so the degree is 5. The leading term is the term containing that degree, 3x⁵. The leading coefficient is the coefficient of that term, 3.

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$x=-2,0,3$

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We have been given a function $f(x)=15x^3-15x^2-90x$ . We are asked to find the zeros of our given function.

To find the zeros of our given function, we will equate our given function by 0 as shown below:

$15x^3-15x^2-90x=0$

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Now, we will split the middle term of our equation into parts, whose sum is $-1$ and whose product is $-6$ . We know such two numbers are $-3\text{ and }2$ .