Finding the missing value of a constant in a polynomial, using the Factor Theorem

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Elliott Fletcher commented 7 years, 10 months ago

Yeah, i completely agree with the title that you suggested Hannah, it sounds much better.

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Hannah Aldous commented 7 years, 10 months ago

just a few pedantic things I picked up on,
feel like the title should maybe be 'finding the missing value of a constant in a polynomial using the factor theorem'?
in your advice you start with again, but I don't think this is necessary, but it's up to you.
not sure you need commas in between your lines of working, after m or 0.
not sure 'But g(2)=0' should be a sentence independently maybe join it to the sentence before with a comma.

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Name	Status	Author	Last Modified
Finding the missing value of a constant in a polynomial, using the Factor Theorem	Ready to use	Elliott Fletcher	20/11/2019 14:39
Factor Theorem and polynomials	draft	Adrian Jannetta	16/08/2023 14:56
Finding the missing value of a constant in a polynomial, using the Factor Theorem	draft	Adrian Jannetta	16/08/2023 14:56
Marlon's copy of Finding the missing value of a constant in a polynomial, using the Factor Theorem	draft	Marlon Arcila	03/02/2018 16:11
Marlon's copy of Finding the missing value of a constant in a polynomial, using the Factor Theorem	draft	Marlon Arcila	03/02/2018 16:19
Factor Theorem	draft	Mark Hodds	24/03/2018 15:58
Dado que $({x+{d}})$ es un factor de $g(x) = ax^3+{b}x^2+{x}+m$ , Encontrar el valor de $m$ .	Ready to use	Luis Hernandez	19/06/2023 13:36
JD's copy of Finding the missing value of a constant in a polynomial, using the Factor Theorem	draft	JD Ichwan	21/05/2019 05:42
Finding the missing value of a constant in a polynomial, using the Factor Theorem	draft	Xiaodan Leng	11/07/2019 01:38

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The factor theorem states that if $f(x)$ is a polynomial and $f(p) = 0$ , then $(x-p)$ is a factor of $f(x)$ .

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w	integer	2
a	integer	-2
b	integer	-2
d	integer	-1
coef_x3	number	2
coef_x2	number	-8
coef_x	integer	10

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Given that $(\simplify{x+{d}})$ is a factor of $g(x) = \simplify{{w}*x^3+({w}{d}+{a}+{w}{b})*x^2+({a}{d}+{w}{b}{d}+{a}{b})*x}+m$ , find the value of $m$ .

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Using the factor theorem, we know that if $(x-a)$ is a factor of a polynomial $f(x)$ , then $f(a)=0$ .

We are given that $(\simplify{x+{d}})$ is a factor of $g(x) = \simplify{{w}*x^3+({w}{d}+{a}+{w}{b})*x^2+({a}{d}+{w}{b}{d}+{a}{b})*x+m}$ .

By the factor theorem, this means that $g(\simplify{-{d}}) = 0$ .

Substituting $x=\simplify{-{d}}$ into $g(x)$ gives

$\begin{align} g(\simplify{-{d}}) &= \simplify[all,!collectNumbers]{{coef_x3}+{coef_x2}+{coef_x}+m}\\ &=\simplify{{coef_x3}+{coef_x2}+{coef_x}+m}. \end{align}$

Therefore, as $g(\simplify{-{d}}) = 0$ , we have

$\begin{align} \simplify{{coef_x3}+{coef_x2}+{coef_x}+m}&=0\\ m&=\simplify{-({coef_x3}+{coef_x2}+{coef_x})}. \end{align}$

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