How do you use synthetic division to divide $(x^4 – 16) ÷ (x + 2)$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2018-04-29T01:03:21

Just remember that you must put in a number for each coefficient of the polynomial - even if it is 0.

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So $(x^4-16)/(x+2} = x^3+2x^2+4x + 8$

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