Question

what is the remainder when x^2+5 is divided by x-1?

Answer 1

Do you know how to do synthetic division? You could you that or polynomial long division to find the answer

Answer 2

easiest its to replace \(x\) by \(1\) and see what you get

Answer 3

\[\text{ Let } p(x) \text{ be a polynomial } \\ \text{ The remainder of } \frac{p(x)}{x-c} \text{ is } p(c) .\]