Question

How do you divide `3x^3-x-5 div x-2`?

Answer 1

`3x^3-x-5 div x-2 = color(green)(3x^2+6x+11) " with remainder "color(brown)(17)`

Explanation:

One way of doing this is to use long polynomial division as indicated below.
Remember that all `x` exponent terms need to be included (especially those with `0` valued coefficients).