Graphing Quartics

Quartics can have more possible factor types than Cubics. Here are many of the options. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Four linear real factors y a( x b)( x c)( x d )( x e) A squared real linear factor and tow different real linear factors Two squared real linear factors A cubed factor and one real linear factor A real linear factor raised to the fourth power One real quadratic factor with 0 and two real linear factors Two real quadratic factors each with 0
40

40

30

30

20

20

10

10

x
-40 -30 -20 -10 -10 10 20 30 40
-40 -30 -20 -10 -10 10 20 30

x
40

-20

-20

-30

-30

-40

-40

40

40

30

30

20

20

10

10

x
-40 -30 -20 -10 -10 10 20 30 40 -40

x
-30 -20 -10 -10 10 20 30 40

-20

-20

-30

-30

-40

-40

40

40

30

30

20

20

10

10

x
-40 -30 -20 -10 -10 10 20 30 40 -40
-30 -20 -10 -10 10 20 30

x
40

-20

-20

-30

-30

-40

-40

5 4 3 2 1

x
-5 -4 -3 -2 -1 -1 -2 -3 -4 -5 1 2 3 4 5

What would happen to all these graphs if the a was negative? Ex1) Find the equation of the quartic with the graph:
10 8 6 4 2

x
-10 -8 -6 -4 -2 -2 -4 -6 -8 -10 2 4 6 8 10

Ex2) Find the quartic that touches the x-axis at 2, cute it at -3 and also passes through (1,-12) and (3,6)