document.write( "Question 628150: Would you please kindly answer my equation using synthetic division
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Algebra.Com's Answer #395463 by jsmallt9(3758) $\"\"$ $\"About$

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Please re-post your question. You have two $\"m%5E2\"$ terms. If this is correct, then they cancel each other out and your expression is
\n" ); document.write( " $\"-m%5E4%2Bm%5E3%2B5\"$ . Post this simplified expression.

\n" ); document.write( "But I suspect that the first term has an exponent higher than 4 since polynomials are usually written in order from highest exponent to lowest.

\n" ); document.write( "P.S. According to your note, you posted the problem correctly. We should start then by simplifying $\"m%5E2-m%5E4%2Bm%5E3-m%5E2%2B5\"$ to $\"-m%5E4%2Bm%5E3%2B5\"$ which we will now divide by m-4 using synthetic division:
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document.write( "4 }   -1    1    0    0     5   <== two zeros for the missing x^2 and x terms\r\n" );
document.write( "===        -4  -12  -48  -192\r\n" );
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document.write( "      -1  -3   -12  -48  -187\r\n" );
document.write( "which matches what you got with long division.\r\n" );
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