How to you get the equation of a cubic from its graph?
For example:
If this is a graph of ax^3+bx^2+cx+d, what is a+b+c+d?
you can see the zero crossings are at x=0,x=1,x=2Thus the curve is given by f(x)=x(x−1)(x−2)=x3−3x2+2xa+b+c+d=1−3+2=0
one can be a bit more clever and note that in generala+b+c+d=f(1)and we know that 1 is one of the zeros soa+b+c+d=f(1)=0
thanks!