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10. Roots and Zeros
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Exercise 54 Page 78

The real zeros of a function are x-intercepts of its graph.

one negative real zero and two imaginary zeros

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Because the degree of the function is 3, it has three zeros. The real zeros of a function are x-intercepts of its graph.

The polynomial function has only one x-intercept on the negative side of the x-axis. Therefore, it has one negative real zero. The remaining two zeros are the imaginary zeros.