Question

Help pls. not harddd. giving lots of points, give small explanation.

Answer 1

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Answer:

  4

Step-by-step explanation:

The function is of even degree. You can tell this because the end behavior is the same at both ends.

There are at least 4 zeros. There are 2 zeros of multiplicity 1 and one zero of multiplicity 2.

The crossings of the x-axis at x=-2 and x=3 have no flat spot, so the multiplicity must be 1; not 3, 5, or some other odd number.

You can tell the zero at x=1 is even multiplicity, because the graph does not cross the x-axis there. You can tell the multiplicity is only 2 because the curve is not flat enough for it to be 4 or more.

A polynomial function with 4 real zeros has a minimum degree of 4.