Question

Joshua decides to use synthetic division to find the the quotient of (equation provided above).What value from the divisor should he write in front of the coefficients?-332-2

Answer 1

Firstly, we need to understand what is meant by synthetic division.

In synthetic division, we write out coefficients of the divisor.

The coefficients of the divisor are;

3 , 6 , 2 , 9 , 10

Now, lets take a look at the term which we would be dividing with. We simply set the term which is x + 2 to 0

This gives x + 2 = 0

and thus, x = -2

This is the value w