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Monday, 13 February 2017

All Cubic Polynomials Are Point Symmetric

It was accident that I stumbled upon this PDF file discussing point symmetry in cubic polynomials. I had been looking for information about sketching cubic polynomials that could help a student I am currently tutoring in Mathematics. I've extracted the key observation in the screen shot below:


Here is an annotated graph that I produced in GeoGebra illustrating the point of symmetry for a specific cubic polynomial:  f(x)=x33x2+2x1



A translation of the graph (-1, 1) to (0, 0) makes the graph symmetry about the origin and an odd function. The new equation is calculated as follows:  f(x)1=(x+1)33(x+1)2+2(x+1)1 and  f(x)=x(x+1)(x1) or  f(x)=x(x21).

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