A new company estimates its total profit (profit = total revenue minus total cost) as P(x) = x4 – 2x3 – 240x – 35, where P is in hundreds of dollars and x is the number of months elapsed since the company’s start-up. According to the rational zero theorem, what can be the values of x until the company breaks even?
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+ or - (1, 5, 7) derived from the factors of the constant divided by the factors of the x^4 term.
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