SOLUTION: How would you do x3-4x2+2x-8

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Question 220157: How would you do x3-4x2+2x-8
Answer by solver91311(24713) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!


Probably just look at it in the absence of any other instructions. I'm presuming that x3 means and so on so you have a very lovely little 3rd degree polynomial. Since there is no equation -- not an equals sign as far as the eye can see -- this cannot be solved, so I'm at a loss as to what you mean by "do" in your question.

By the way, if you wish to indicate something raised to a power, use the caret sign (Shift-6), like this x^3. We will understand that to mean . The way you did it is not quite as obvious what you mean.

John