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Background:
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Then the Conjugate Zeros Theorem says that nonreal zeros can only occur in conjugate
pairs.
In other words, if (with ) is a zero of then its conjugate is
also a zero.
We are told that has real coefficients and that and are
zeros of
So by the Conjugate Zeros Theorem, their conjugates and are also
zeros.
Thus, and are all possible answers.
(b) What is the maximum number of real zeros that can have?
(c) What is the maximum number of nonreal zeros that can have?
Because has zeros total, the number of nonreal zeros cannot exceed
By the Conjugate Zeros Theorem, the nonreal zeros of can only occur in
conjugate pairs.
So the number of nonreal zeros is even, which means has at most nonreal
zeros.
(a)
(b)
(c)
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