{"id":17761,"date":"2026-05-02T19:20:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T13:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/select-factors-of-a-cubic-2\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T19:20:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T13:20:49","slug":"select-factors-of-a-cubic-2","status":"publish","type":"mcq","link":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/select-factors-of-a-cubic-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Select Factors Of A Cubic 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For P(x) = x^3 &#8211; 9*x^2 + 8*x + 60, which of the following are factors? Select all correct options.<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"quiz-options wp-block-list\">\n<li>x &#8211; (5)<\/li>\n<li>x &#8211; (4)<\/li>\n<li>x &#8211; (-3)<\/li>\n<li>x &#8211; (-2)<\/li>\n<li>x &#8211; (-1)<\/li>\n<li>x &#8211; (-5)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","topic":[2705],"subject":[1425],"education_level":[1896],"class_list":["post-17761","mcq","type-mcq","status-publish","hentry","topic-algebra","subject-mathematics","education_level-hsc"],"mcq_note":"Use the Factor Theorem. A term of the form x - a is a factor of P(x) only when P(a) = 0. So do not choose a factor by appearance; test the value inside the bracket. For this polynomial, the correct listed factors are x - (5), x - (-2). In other words, x - (5) because P(5) = 0, x - (-2) because P(-2) = 0. The other options are not factors because substituting their corresponding values does not make the polynomial equal to zero.","mcq_options":[{"right":"yes","answer":"x - (5)"},{"right":"no","answer":"x - (4)"},{"right":"no","answer":"x - (-3)"},{"right":"yes","answer":"x - (-2)"},{"right":"no","answer":"x - (-1)"},{"right":"no","answer":"x - (-5)"}],"multi_answers":"yes","subject_terms":[{"id":1425,"title":"Mathematics","slug":"mathematics"}],"topic_terms":[{"id":2705,"title":"Algebra","slug":"algebra"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq\/17761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mcq"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=17761"},{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=17761"},{"taxonomy":"education_level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/education_level?post=17761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}