simple way to divide polynomials?

[phatcow]

dammit... i need to learn in 20 minutes.

 

[Robert01]

Give me a polynomial.

 

[b0mbrman]

Just like normal division--divide and then carry the remainder. Make sure you have a term for every exponent of X...

Thus if you're dividing

4x^3 + x

by something, you'd rewrite it as

4x^3 + 0x^2 + x + 0

 

[phatcow]

lets say its



(16rst^2)/(-8rst^3)

 

[b0mbrman]

Ah. You were talkig about something even easier. Just put all like terms together...

Make it read:

16 . r . s . t^2
- 8 r s t^3

Or...

-(16/8)(r/r)(s/s)(t^2/t^3)
=-(2)(1)(1)(1/t)
=-(2/t)

Then go from there...it makes it a lot simpler

 

[phatcow]

can you work that one out real quick for me? i wanna know if im doing it correctly

 

[b0mbrman]

See up ^

 

[phatcow]

thank yew.........

 

[iLoveDivX]

algebra.neopages.com

 

[phatcow]

can you do one of polynomials now?


(2x+1)/(6x^2-7x-2)

 

[phatcow]

those are the ones that are bugging me the most...

 

[Siva]

nm