SOLUTION: So recently we have started learning how to divide polynomials but I am having trouble with one particular problem, I tried solving it and got an answer but I am not too sure if I

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Question 797737: So recently we have started learning how to divide polynomials but I am having trouble with one particular problem, I tried solving it and got an answer but I am not too sure if I did it correctly. If you could help double check my work that would be great or show me how to do it, I would really appreciate it. So I have to divide 3x^4-6x^2+3x-7 by x+1
The answers I got are the quotient: 3x^3-6x+9 with a remainder of -16

Answer by josgarithmetic(39616) About Me  (Show Source):
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Be sure to use the dividend of 3x%5E4%2B0%2Ax%5E3-6x%5E2%2B3x-7. You must account for ALL places of x. This is just like you account for "all places of tens" when you learned ordinary long division of base-ten numbers, but now you have x instead of tens.

Your result should be:
3x%5E3-3x%5E2-3x-6 and remainder -1.