document.write( "Question 74623: Please can you give me a step by step solution of the following long division of polynominals question:
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Please can you give me a step by step solution of the following \r\n" );
document.write( "long division of polynominals question:\r\n" );
document.write( "3x^4+4x^3-2x^2+8 divided by 2x^3-18x+2x^2-18.\r\n" );
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document.write( "This isn't step-by-step, but if you can't follow it at all\r\n" );
document.write( "then you need to learn the procedure from simpler examples.\r\n" );
document.write( "This is too advanced a problem from which to be learning \r\n" );
document.write( "the procedure for the first time.\r\n" );
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document.write( "The dividend polynomial 3x4 + 4x3 - 2x2 + 8 is in order of\r\n" );
document.write( "descending powers of x but it has a missing term in x. So \r\n" );
document.write( "we need to insert a place-holder of + 0x and write it as:\r\n" );
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document.write( "3x4 + 4x3 - 2x2 + 0x + 8\r\n" );
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document.write( "The divisor polynomial 2x3 - 18x + 2x2 - 18 is not in\r\n" );
document.write( "order of descending powers of x so we write it as\r\n" );
document.write( "2x3 + 2x2 - 18x - 18\r\n" );
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document.write( "                                                    1.5x + .5\r\n" );
document.write( "            2x3 + 2x2 - 18x - 18) 3x4 + 4x3 -  2x2 +   0x + 8\r\n" );
document.write( "                                  3x4 + 3x3 - 27x2 -  27x \r\n" );
document.write( "                                        x3 + 25x2 +  27x +  8\r\n" );
document.write( "                                        x3 +   x2 -   9x -  9\r\n" );
document.write( "                                             24x2 +  36x + 17\r\n" );
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document.write( "Now we write the final answer as\r\n" );
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document.write( "                     remainder\r\n" );
document.write( "         quotient + ——————————— \r\n" );
document.write( "                      divisor\r\n" );
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document.write( "                        24x2 + 36x + 17\r\n" );
document.write( "        1.5x + .5 + ——————————————————————\r\n" );
document.write( "                     2x3 + 2x2 - 18x - 18\r\n" );
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