I am confused on this! In my class we are to detail the process of polynomial division when the divisor is a monomial. Demonstrate the process with an example.

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I am confused on this!  In my class we are to detail the process of polynomial division when the divisor is a monomial.  Demonstrate the process with an example.

anonymous · Answer

do you mean polynomial long division?

anonymous · Answer

I think so?

anonymous · Answer

here would be an example 3x^3+2x^2+4x/x^2

anonymous · Answer

first you rewrite the problem as you would a long division problem

anonymous · Answer

How do you rewrite the problem as a long division problem

anonymous · Answer

x^2 in this case is the divisor

anonymous · Answer

i'm sorry it keeps retracting my posts  one sec...

anonymous · Answer

here, for some reason it won't allow me to use the symbols i would like but i can give you a link to a site that explains this if you wish

anonymous · Answer

yes that would be nice because this is so confusing to me.  Also what does the ^ mean.

anonymous · Answer

hopefully this will answer your questions http://www.sosmath.com/algebra/factor/fac01/fac01.html and the ^ means to the power of so x^2 would mean xsquared

anonymous · Answer

thank you!

anonymous · Answer

no problem

anonymous · Answer

oh and the site i provided shows examples with binomials and trinomials so keep that in mind

anonymous · Answer

ok

anonymous · Answer

I am taking my class through the University of Phoenix and this is my second block of classes for algebra!

amistre64 · Answer

3x    +2
        ------------------
x^2 |3x^3  +2x^2  +4x
       -3x^3
       -------------
                      2x^2
                    -2x^2
                     ----------
                                   4x <- remainder


Since 4x/x^2 = 4/x

                       4
3x^2 +2 +  ----
                       x