# Solve for x if 3x^3 - 9x^2 - 12x = 0.

hala718 | Certified Educator

We need to factor the polynomial 3x^3 - 9x^2 - 12x = 0.

We notice that 3x is a common factor for all terms of the polynimial.

Then, we will factor 3x from the polynomial.

First, we will factor 3x from all sides.

==> 3x( x^2 - 3x - 4) = 0

Now we will factor between brackets.

==> 3x ( x -4)(x+ 1) = 0

To factor between brackets, we could also use the roots formula to determine the roots of the function then obtain the factors.

x= (-b+- sqrt(b^2 - 4ac) / 2a

==> x1= 4

==> x2= -1

=> ( x- x1) and ( x-x2) are factor of x^2 - 3x -4.

==> x^2 - 3x - 4 = ( x-4) ( x+ 1)

justaguide | Certified Educator

We have to solve for x using the equation 3x^3 - 9x^2 - 12x = 0

Now 3x^3 - 9x^2 - 12x = 0

=> 3x ( x^2 - 3x - 4) = 0

=> 3x  ( x^2 - 4x + x - 4) = 0

=> 3x [ x(x - 4) + 1(x-4)] = 0

=> 3x (x +1) (x-4) = 0

For 3x = 0 , we have x = 0

For x + 1 = 0, we have x = -1

For x - 4 = 0 , we have x = 4.

Therefore the required values of x that are solutions of 3x^3 - 9x^2 - 12x = 0 are 0, -1 and 4.

neela | Student

﻿To  solve 3x^3-9x^2-12x= 0.

Let f(x) = ﻿﻿3x^3-9x^2-12x.

f(x) = 3x(x^2-3x-4).

Therfore f(x) =0 gives 3x = 0, or x^2-3x-4 = 0.

3 x= 0 gives x = 0.

x^2-3x-4 = 0  gives  the roots to be found as beow:

x^2-3x-4 = x^2-4x+x-4.

x^2-3x-4  =x(x-4)+1(x-4).

x^2-3x-4 = (x^2- 3x-4)

Therefore x^2-3x-4 = 0 gives:

(x-4)(x+1) = 0.

So x= 4 or x=-1.

Threfore the roots are x= 0, x= 4 orx= -1.
{"extraction_info": {"found_math": false, "script_math_tex": 0, "script_math_asciimath": 0, "math_annotations": 0, "math_alttext": 0, "mathml": 0, "mathjax_tag": 0, "mathjax_inline_tex": 0, "mathjax_display_tex": 0, "mathjax_asciimath": 0, "img_math": 0, "codecogs_latex": 0, "wp_latex": 0, "mimetex.cgi": 0, "/images/math/codecogs": 0, "mathtex.cgi": 0, "katex": 0, "math-container": 0, "wp-katex-eq": 0, "align": 0, "equation": 0, "x-ck12": 0, "texerror": 0, "math_score": 0.8256646394729614, "perplexity": 1565.0936676750136}, "config": {"markdown_headings": true, "markdown_code": true, "boilerplate_config": {"ratio_threshold": 0.18, "absolute_threshold": 10, "end_threshold": 15, "enable": true}, "remove_buttons": true, "remove_image_figures": true, "remove_link_clusters": true, "table_config": {"min_rows": 2, "min_cols": 3, "format": "plain"}, "remove_chinese": true, "remove_edit_buttons": true, "extract_latex": true}, "warc_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-17/segments/1524125944851.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20180421012725-20180421032725-00449.warc.gz"}