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[Lots of Points] What are all of the real roots of the following polynomial?

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LammettHash
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  • 09-05-2019

Notice you can factorize

[tex]x^5+5x^4-5x^3-25x^2+4x+20[/tex]

by grouping the terms as

[tex](x^5-5x^3+4x)+(5x^4-25x^2+20)=x(x^4-5x^2+4)+5(x^4-5x^2+4)[/tex]

[tex]\implies f(x)=(x+5)(x^4-5x^2+4)[/tex]

Then you know right away that [tex]x=-5[/tex] is a (real) root, so we eliminate C and D.

The remaining quartic can be factored easily:

[tex]x^4-5x^2+4=(x^2)^2-5x^2+4=(x^2-4)(x^2-1)=(x-2)(x+2)(x-1)(x+1)[/tex]

which admits four more (also real) roots, [tex]x=\pm2[/tex] and [tex]x=\pm1[/tex], so the answer is B.

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