Question

help on factoring please?
x^3+2x-3

Answer 1

you can see by your eyeballs that if you replace x by 1 you get 0
that means you can factor as
\[x^3+2x-3=(x-1)(\text{ something })\] so your only job it to figure out what the other factor is

Answer 2

lol i knew about the (x-1) but the other something was what I was hoping to find out. because i had x^2+3 but that didnt work

Answer 3

oh wait nvm its x^+x+3