Question

How do you use synthetic division to divide `y= x^3 + 3x^2 - 13x - 15` , (x + 5)?

Answer 1

Quotient `x^2 -2x -3.` Remainder 0

Explanation:

Synthetic division Table in this case would look like this:

Write coefficients of `x^3 , x^2, x`and the constant in a row and divisor would be the x value obtained by equation x+5=0. The sequence of multiplications would be as shown: