Question

A classroom has a volume of x3 + 5x2 – 2x – 24 ft3 and the height is x – 2 ft. The floor is represented by what polynomial?

Answer 1

Wow an application for long division

Answer 2

That only gives us one factor. There are two other factors

Answer 3

x^2+ 7x+ 12 by long division

Answer 4

says polynomial, so I just left it in polynomial form

Answer 5

x^2 + 7x + 12 also factors to (x+3)(x+4)