Question

Describe with examples of your own when you would use long division and synthetic division and how to check polynomial division.

Answer 1

@thenikko

Answer 2

You use synthetic division if your divisor is ax+b

Answer 3

So 4x+3 would be synthetic division, but x^2+3x+2 would be long division

Answer 4

Is that because it has exponents?

Answer 5

Because it has an exponent greater than one ^^

Answer 6

What about the polynomial division?

Answer 7

@thenikko

Answer 8

Those are both forms of polynomial divison

Answer 9

But how would you check it using polynomial division

Answer 10

You would take your answer and multiply it with your divisor.

Answer 11

And it should give you the original equation you were dividing