A poor estimate of the factor. See if you can do any
better.
2.
4
3
2
( ) = − 2 − 2 + 8 − 4
2
As you can see in this graph there are only two real
factors the other roots are complex. From the graph,
estimates of the factors are,
= −1.9, 0.7
The fx keystrokes for this polynomial are,
8