document.write( "Question 1055317: 1, -3, 2; degree 3 use the factor theorem to write the function in factored form and standard form. This is the math problem I'm stuck on if you could help me I'd highly appreciate it
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Algebra.Com's Answer #670551 by Edwin McCravy(20065)\"\" \"About 
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document.write( "The last thing you would have written after having \r\n" );
document.write( "solved a polynomial equation whose solutions are \r\n" );
document.write( "1, -3, 2; would have been:\r\n" );
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document.write( "  x=1;    x=-3;   x=2\r\n" );
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document.write( "And just before that you would have had written\r\n" );
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document.write( "x-1=0;  x+3=0;  x-2=0\r\n" );
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document.write( "And just before that you would have had:\r\n" );
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document.write( "(x-1)(x+3)(x-2) = 0\r\n" );
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document.write( "And before that you would have had the polynomial f(x) \r\n" );
document.write( "that you were to find the zeros of by setting it equal\r\n" );
document.write( "to zero, and solving.\r\n" );
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document.write( "f(x) = (x-1)(x+3)(x-2)\r\n" );
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document.write( "That's factored form.  Before that it was in general form.\r\n" );
document.write( "If you multiply two of those parentheses, and then take \r\n" );
document.write( "what you get and multiply by the third one, and collect \r\n" );
document.write( "and/or cancel all the like terms you'll end up with this \r\n" );
document.write( "general form:\r\n" );
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document.write( "f(x) = x3-7x+6\r\n" );
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