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Use Descartes’s rule of signs to determine the possible number of positive and negative real zeros of f(x)=8x^4-6x^3-4x^2-7x+3

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let's recall Descartes rule of signs, to get the Real Positive ones we start by checking the sign changes for f(x), and to get the Real Negative ones we check the sign changes for f( -x ).

Check the picture below.

Use Descartes’s rule of signs to determine the possible number of positive and negative-example-1
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