Concept explainers
To Find: The way to use the Descartes’s rule of signs to determine the number of possible positive real roots and the number of possible negative roots of the polynomial of the given function.
Answer to Problem 60HP
The function has either 3 positive real roots and 1 real negative root or the function have 1 real positive root or 1 negative root and 2 imaginary roots.
Explanation of Solution
Given:
The given function is
Calculation:
Consider the given function is,
The above function has degree four so there are four roots of the function. The first step is to determine the number of positive roots of the function for this consider the change in sign in the functions are
The number of possible negative roots of the function is obtained as,
In the above function the sign changes only one time this shows that there is only one negative real root.
Thus, the function has either 3 positive real roots and 1 real negative root or the function have 1 real positive root or 1 negative root and 2 imaginary roots.
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