A Puzzle Equivalent to Factoring a Cubic

Based on this puzzle.

Solid lines mean multiply, dashed lines mean add. Put numbers in the circles to make the calculations work out.

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Solving this is equivalent to factoring the cubic 2x^3+21x^2+67x+60.

This version of the puzzle is not pedagogically useful, but still interesting from a graph theory standpoint.

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