If it had those zeros, and you solved it, you would end up with x=-2; x=1; x=2; x=4 and before that you would have had x+2=0; x-1=0; x-2=0; x-4=0 and before that you would have had (x+2)(x-1)(x-2)(x-4) = 0 And so the polynomial you would have started with and factored and set equal to zero, would have been: P(x) = (x+2)(x-1)(x-2)(x-4) That's the factored form asked for. If you multiplied it out it, the polynomial would have been P(x) = x4 - 5x3 + 20x - 16 real zeros are the same thing as x-coordinates of the x-intercepts:Edwin