SOLUTION: 12x^3-32x^2+25x-6=0

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Question 119377: 12x^3-32x^2+25x-6=0
Answer by Edwin McCravy(20056)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

12x³ - 32x² + 25x - 6 = 0

It has three sign changes going from left to right,
so it has 3 or 1 positive solutions.

f(-x) = 12(-x)³ - 32(-x)² + 25(-x) - 6 = -12x³ - 32x² - 25x - 6

has no sign changes so there are no negative solutions.

Any rational solutions it may have must have a numerator which
is a factor of 6 and a denominator which is a factor of 12.

Possible numerators: 1,2,3,6
Possible denominators: 1,2,3,4,6,12

Possible roots: 1/1, 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 1/6, 1/12, 2/1, 2/2, 2/3, 2/6, 
2/12, 3/1, 3/2, 3/3, 3/4, 3/6, 3/12, 6/1, 6/2, 6/3, 6/4, 6/6, 6/12

Reducing the fractions: 1, 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 1/6, 1/12, 2, 1, 2/3, 1/3, 
1/6, 3, 3/2, 1, 3/4, 1/2, 1/4, 6, 3, 2, 3/2, 1, 1/2

Eliminating the duplications: 1, 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 1/6, 1/12, 2, 2/3,
3, 3/2, 3/4, 1/4, 6

Try 1 as a solution by dividing synthetically
by x-1

1 | 12 -32  25 -6
  |     12 -20  5 
    12 -20   5 -1

No it has 1 as a remainder, not 0, so x-1 is not
a factor and therefore x=1 is not a solution

Try  as a zero by dividing synthetically
by x-

  | 12 -32  25 -6
    |      6 -13  6     
      12 -26  12  0

This has a remainder of 0 so x- is a factor and
therefore x= is a solution solution.  The 
quotient is 12x²-26+12.  That means that we have now
factored the left side of 

12x³ - 32x² + 25x - 6 = 0

as

(x - )(12x² - 26x - 6) = 0

Now we can factor 2 out of the the second parentheses:

(x - )2(6x² - 13x - 3) = 0

If you like you can multiply the 2 into the first
parentheses:

 (2x - 1)(6x² - 13x - 3) = 0

Now factor the second parentheses:

(2x - 1)(3x - 2)(2x - 3) = 0

Setting the first factor = 0, 2x - 1 = 0, gives solution x = 

Setting the second factor = 0, 3x - 2 = 0, gives solution x = 

Setting the third factor = 0, 2x - 3 = 0, gives solution x = 

Edwin

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