SOLUTION: Form a polynomial f(x) with real coefficients having the given degree and zeros. Degree 5; zeros: -4; -i; -3+i

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Question 1188212: Form a polynomial f(x) with real coefficients having the given degree and zeros.
Degree 5; zeros: -4; -i; -3+i

Answer by Edwin McCravy(20054)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Instead of doing your homework for you, I will do one exactly like yours
step-by-step only with slightly different numbers.  I'll do this one instead:
Form a polynomial f(x) with real coefficients having the given degree and zeros.
Degree 5; zeros: -5; -2i; -4+2i
If a polynomial has a complex imaginary zero a+bi, then a-bi is also a zero.

So all the zeros are: -5; -2i; +2i; -4+2i; -4-2i 

Set x equal to each:

x = -5;  x = -2i;   x = +2i;  x = -4+2i;   x = -4-2i

Get 0 on the right of each:

x+5 = 0; x+2i = 0; x-2i = 0;  x+4-2i = 0;  x+4+2i = 0

Multiply all the left and right sides together:





























So a polynomial function of degree 5 which we must set = 0, to find
the zeros: -5; -2i; -4+2i  is the left side of the preceding equation:



Edwin

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