Question

What is the fixed method for factorising a cubic polynomial? Answer quick and i will mark u brainliest......​

Answer 1

Answer:

there is method

Step-by-step explanation:

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I am looking for some advice and tips/help about something. I am in calculus now and have been doing well but I recently realized to a bit of my own embarrassment that I am still not fully comfortable factoring cubics. I can do it usually, it just takes me a while and consists of mostly guess and checking, and not a certain process.

Ill give an example,

suppose I want to factor to solve for the roots

−x3+9x2−15x+2=0

Now; I know there are a few general methods.

I know one way is to factor by grouping, but this cannot be done in the example here. I know if possible you can also factor in such a manner that you have one root and can use the quadratic formula on the other.

I think I am looking for other possibilities, mainly a nice explanation of what I believe is called the "Rational Root Theorem".

It involves something along the lines of first looking at the constant term and finding at least one root by plugging in factors of that number, then using this root and the coefficient of the highest x, you use synthetic division to find the other roots.

Anyways, I am basically looking for any explanations on methods, and if someone could show me how to solve this using synthetic division that would be great.

Update: And I am also wondering for the rational root test, if the coefficient on the x3 is not a 1 or -1, would not the amount of possible factors potentially be very large? how do you deal with this?

Update 2: I solved the above question as follows; I noted x=2 was a factor and did synthetic division as