factorising quadratics

jennymac | 19:01 Sun 12th Nov 2006 | Science

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I will put that a little clearer

x cubed minus 2x cubed minus 11x minus 12

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er...
do you mean

x^3 - 2x^3 - 11x -12 or
x^3 - 2x� - 11x -12?

=0?

anyway, neither are quadratics, they are cubic equations.

for x^3 - 2x� - 11x -12, there is only one real factor, (x-4.8)

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Thanks for your time to answer I will go through your answers and see if I can make sense of it.

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