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What if you are dividing by a polynomial?The last method we did won’t work.
There are three ways to do this:LONG DIVISIONSYNTHETIC DIVISIONFACTORING (we will cover next week)
5.3.2 Long DivisionNumber example
How do we divide 867 by four using long division?
Similar when using polynomials?
5.3.3 Synthetic DivisionIt is a shortcut way of doing long division.
Only works when divided by something in the form x – c
Set-up:
Degree is always one less than the original