College Algebra

bcombs

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I would truly appreciate help for this problem - I've looked on a college tutoring website and purplemath, and I just am not understanding how to do this or how to graph the problem on a graphing calculator.

Approximate the X-intercept and the local extrema: P(X) = 0.1x^4 + 0.3x^3 -23x^2 - 23x + 90
 
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Your request for help is too vague for me to figure out what you need. What is it specifically that you've read so far that you do not understand?

Nobody here will know why you're stuck, until after you explain why. We also won't know what graphing calculator you're using, until after you tell us.

The best that I can do right now, based on no specifics from you, is to provide a website that plots polynomials. (I found it by entering keywords equation grapher at Google.)

http://www.walterzorn.com/grapher/grapher_e.htm

Copy-and-paste the following expression into the function field at the above site. (The function field is labeled: y = f(x) =)

0.1*x^4 + 0.3*x^3 - 23*x^2 - 23*x + 90

Fill in the other six fields with the graph boundaries and scales. I used the following values.

x runs from -20 to 20 scale: 1

y runs from -1500 to 500 scale: 100

Now, click the [GRAPH] button, and hover the mouse pointer over the graph to see the coordinates at that location.

If I wrote anything that you do not understand, please reply with your specific questions.

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I'm sorry I wasn't more specific - that is the homework question. Obviously, I missed something, so I will go back and look to see what I missed.
 
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