Question

What is the quotient of x^5-1 / x-1? I can't seem to get the right answer.

Answer 1

1 | 1 0 0 0 0 -1
| 1 1 1 1 1
------------------------------------
1 1 1 1 1 | 0

Answer 2

\[1x^4+1x^3+1x^2+1x^1+1x^0\]

or

\[x^4+x^3+x^2+x+1\]

Answer 3

I see... I was putting in only X^4+1

Answer 4

were you doing long division or synthetic?

Answer 5

i think synthetic when possible is easiest

Answer 6

long I guess

Answer 7

do you know how to do synthetic division?

Answer 8

It's been a while

Answer 9

first you probably should write
\[x^5-1 \text{ as} x^5+0x^4+0x^3+0x^2+0x-1\]

Answer 10

not the coefficient of x^5 is 1

Answer 11

note*