Int Algebra: Using Long Division with Polynomials

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This lesson is part of a series: Intermediate Algebra

You know how to use long division to divide two numbers; you can also use long division when dividing polynomials. In this lesson, Professor Burger will review with you how to long divide and then show you how to use long division with polynomials (to evaluate things like (x^4+3x^2-5x-10)/(X^2+3x-5) ). When long dividing, you often end up with a remainder, and this will be the case when using long division on polynomials, as well. This lesson will show you how to find both the quotient and the remainder when dividing two polynomials using long division.

Taught by Professor Edward Burger, this lesson was selected from a broader, comprehensive course, Intermediate Algebra. This course and others are available from Thinkwell, Inc. The full course can be found at http://www.thinkwell.com/student/product/intermediatealgebra. The full course covers real numbers, equations and inequalities, exponents and polynomials, rational expressions, roots and radicals, relations and functions, the straight line, systems of equations, quadratic equations and quadratic inequalities, conic sections, inverse and exponential and logarithmic functions, and a variety of other AP algebra and advanced algebra.

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[volikoto]

hey!! make it finish!

[jonathont2]

This thing here!

[uwerepewned]

We know how to long divide, not with polynomials though...

[ilovebenton]

This video didn't help me at all... where's the polynomial part of it...??

[111beauty4ever]

lol...this is a 1st grader division...where's the polynomial....??jerk

[Sarahmint]

THANK YOU!

no one ever explained that remainders' importance before =]