Answer:
f(x) = x^3 - 6x^2+8x
Explanation:
Remember while you are studying polynomial functions that zeros are just the solutions (and are the x-intercepts on the graph).
The question said the zeros were 0, 2 and 4, so if you were solving the equation you would get:
x=0 and x=2 and x=4
Just "undo" that last step of solving and you get:
x = 0 and
x - 4 = 0 and
x - 2 = 0
These are the factors of the function and they do look just like the second option of answers on your question. But that is in factored form and they asked you for standard form.
so f(x)=x(x-2)(x-4) is almost there, but you need to multiply all the factors back together.
(x - 2)(x - 4)
use FOIL or distributive property or area model(box) method to multiply and get
x^2 - 6x + 8
Then multiply in the x using distributive property.
f(x) = x(x^2-6x+8)
f(x) = x^3 - 6x^2 + 8x
That's the final answer (the third choice of answers on your post.) I think of this as a "working backwards" problem because you start with solutions (zeros means solutions!) and work backwards to find factors, then the function.