SOLUTION: if a cubic polynomial has roots -5 and 6-2i, what is its third root? I can not figure this out

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Question 636349: if a cubic polynomial has roots -5 and 6-2i, what is its third root?
I can not figure this out
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Complex zeros of polynomial functions with real coefficients ALWAYS appear in conjugate pairs. So if is a zero of a polynomial function with real coefficients, then the conjugate, , is also a zero.

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