Showing posts with label Rational Zeros Test. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rational Zeros Test. Show all posts

Saturday, November 30, 2013

Use the Rational Zero Test to list all possible rational zeros of f. f(x)=x^3-4x^2-4x+16

since the leading coefficient is 1, we only look at the constant terms factors
16:
1, -1, 2, -2, 4, -4, 8, -8, 16, -16
in fact toe actual zeros are -2, 2, and 4

Thursday, November 7, 2013

Factor to find all the zeros x^3-5x^2+16x-30=0

factors of 30:

1,2,3,5,15,30
of which we'd determine that x=3 is a solution such that
x^3-5x^2+16x-30=(x-3)(x^2-2x+10)=0
but the quadratic is not factorable over the reals - so we'd need the quadratic formula to determine that x=1+3i, and x=1-3i are the other two factors. Thus the zeros are:
{3, 1-3i, 1+3i}