Question

FAN AND MEDAL! HELP!

A mysterious box is delivered to the dinner party you are attending. The label on the box says that the volume of a box is the function f(x) = x3 + 3x2 – 10x – 24. To open the box, you need to identify the correct factors of f(x). Partygoers offer up solutions, and it is your job to find the right ones.

Their suggestions are:

(x – 1)
(x + 2)
(x – 3)
(x + 4)
(x + 6)
(x – 12)
List the correct factors. Then justify your selections with complete sentences.

Answer 1

f(x) = x^3 + 3x^2 - 10x - 24

Sorry, those are exponents

Answer 2

x-3

Answer 3

thats one of them, i need 2 more

Answer 4

x+2

Answer 5

third one is on u