SOLUTION: how do I solve: c^3+c^2-7c-3=0, given root -3?

Question 145753: how do I solve: c^3+c^2-7c-3=0, given root -3?
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First of all, note that this method is fairly advanced. If you don't understand what I'm doing, E-mail me what method you were supposed to use to solve this...

I'm going to change c to x.
By the given information we have,
(x+3)(ax^2+bx+c)=0
and if we expand this out, we have:
3 c + 3 b x + c x + 3 a x^2 + b x^2 + a x^3=0
From this and the original coefficients 1, 1, -7, -3, respectively, it follows that:
3c=-3, implies c=-1
3b+c=-7, implied 3b=-6, implies b=-2
3a+b=1, implies 3a=3, implies a=1.
We don't have to solve the cubic coefficients.
So, the original polynomial factors as:
(x+3)(x^2-2x-1)=0
Now, we can solve for the other roots by applying the quadratic formulae:

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Quadratic equation (in our case ) has the following solutons:

For these solutions to exist, the discriminant should not be a negative number.

First, we need to compute the discriminant : .

Discriminant d=8 is greater than zero. That means that there are two solutions: .

Quadratic expression can be factored:

Again, the answer is: 2.41421356237309, -0.414213562373095. Here's your graph:

Which gives
So, all zeroes are and -3. We can see this in the following graph of the cubic:

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