f(x) = x³ + 2x² - 51x + 108 Divide x³ + 2x² - 51x + 108 by x + 9, either by long division: x² - 7x + 12 x + 9)x³ + 2x² - 51x + 108 x³ + 9x² -7x² - 51x -7x² - 63x 12x + 108 12x + 108 0 or by, what amounts to the same thing, synthetic division, if you've studied that: -9|1 2 -51 108 | -9 63 -108 1 -7 12 0 Either way, thus far you have factored the original cubic polynomial f(x) as: (x + 9)(x² - 7x + 12) Now we can factor the quadratic polynomial in the second parentheses as (x - 3)(x - 4) and the complete factorization of f(x) into prime linear factors is: (x + 9)(x - 3)(x - 4) So the other two prime linear factors of f(x) are (x - 3) and (x - 4). Edwin