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Concepts 1, 2, 3
5.3 Division of Polynomials
5.3.1 Division by a MonomialExample:
3
330
Divide the polynomials.
On your own…
What if you are dividing by a polynomial?The last method we did won’t work.
There are three ways to do this:LONG DIVISIONSYNTHETIC DIVISIONFACTORING (we will cover next week)
5.3.2 Long DivisionNumber example
How do we divide 867 by four using long division?
Similar when using polynomials?
Divide the polynomial using long division.
CHECK:(divisor)(quotient)+(remainder) =
what was divided
Divide the polynomial using long division.
Divide the polynomial using long division.
Divide the polynomial using long division.
Divide the polynomial using long division.
Divide the polynomial using long division.
5.3.3 Synthetic DivisionIt is a shortcut way of doing long division.
Only works when divided by something in the form x – c