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Long Division (x^4-9*x^3+25*x^2-8*x-2)/(x^2-2)

September 1, 2017 by Tommy Leave a Comment

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Hello, Tom from everystepcalculus.com and everystepphysics.com. Long division problem regarding functions you know in calculus if it comes up in calculus whatever, index 8 to get to my menu your going to change long division and your going to enter your function, you have to press alpha before you enter anything in these functions here I’ve already entered the problem so I’m going to press cause it’s a long problem and it takes time save time and you notice this is called the dividend (x^4-9*x^3+25*x^2-8*x-2) and this is called the divisor (x^2-2) you set it up just like a regular numerical long division problem, this off to the left if the screen was wider I could do that for you but I can’t so I have to do it this way and remember your dividing x ^2 into x ^4 first getting the answer of x ^2 and your multiplying x ^2*x^2 which is x^4 and then your going to multiple x^2*-2 which gets -2x^2and your going to change the signs because your subtracting from this so I’ll show you how to do that but remember that this is a divisor we’re operating dividing this into several things that come along here okay so it always give you a chance to change incase you’ve made a mistake but I’ll say it’s okay now here we’ve divided the divisor x^2 into x^4 and you get x^2 and you multiple that times it and then change the sign -x^4 we multiple x^2*-2 and we get -2x^2 and we change the sign to make it +2x^2 okay and then we add them, you notice now that we have 25x^2 up here we’ll if the screen was wider we would have -8x over here and -2 over here but I have to bring it down to show you that it’s still there okay but we are going to deal with this one and this one and this plus this is 27 and this of course becomes 0 so we have 0+(27*x^2) and we bring down the (-26*x)+(-2) okay we are going to divide x^2 into 27*x^2 and we are going to get 27 and we change the sign, write this all on your paper exactly as you see it and you have to keep the coulomb’s of x^2 and x and x^3 all together okay now 27*-2 because a minus -18*x okay -18x-8x is 26x-26x and we still have to bring down the -2 okay and we of course multiple that to come up with a minus which negates these two here and then when we multiple the minus 2 times the minus 27 we get -54 and that change its sign and become 54 okay and 54-2 here becomes 52 so we get 52 we got -2x now once in long division the divisor cannot be divided into this anymore this all becomes as one then you divide that by the divisor so we have [(-26*x)+(52)]/(x^2-2) here is the answer (x^2)+(-9*x)+(27)+[(-26*x)+(52)]/(x^2-2) complicated you have to do it on paper and you will see where it’s much clearer I have trouble explaining it here because of such a small screen and it’s all crammed into one but all the answer is correct and you will get all the problems are correct. Pretty neat hah everystepcalculus.com go to my site buy my programs and pass your calculus, have a good one.

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