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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?

 Jul 21, 2019
edited by Davis  Jul 21, 2019
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you can see the zero crossings are at x=0,x=1,x=2Thus the curve is given by f(x)=x(x1)(x2)=x33x2+2xa+b+c+d=13+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

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 Jul 22, 2019
edited by Rom  Jul 22, 2019
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thanks!

Davis  Jul 27, 2019

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