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Normal long division is easy as balls. But I haven't gotten in Algebra 2 yet. I'm in retard math because my teacher last year hated me like hell. He took points off every assignment for random reasons. If he couldn't come up with one, he would just say its my handwriting, which all my other teachers could read fine.
He also kicked me out of class and gave me detention for unpacking once. He said it was too loud.

same with me but for english. my teacher hated me because i made her seem stupid in front of the class. she said that technology is only thing that have to do with electricity. so i read the definition to her out of a dictionary and it was something i can't remember. but she was wrong and hated me for the rest of the year so she put me in core

He has no friends.

Anyways, decided to draw out my other type of polynomial division.

Basically, you put your dividend on top of the bracket and the divisor outside (drop all the X's). You drop the first number of the dividend down and multiply by the divisor, then place it under the second number of the dividend. Add these two and repeat. When you're done, just move everything back one power from its original (if the first was 3x^4 it becomes 3x^3 and so on). Should look like this.



This is also used to find factors of polynomial equations, such as (X + 2) is also a factor of the example given, as shown here.



As long as you get the pattern it's pretty easy, no need to deal with variables. Only thing is, say your dividend is 4x^5 + 2x^4 - 7x^2 + 9 you have to take all of the missing powers (x^3, x^1) and sub in 0 so that in your division bracket you will see

Divisor | 4 + 2 + 0 - 7 + 0 + 9

And yes, this will have a large effect on your result, especially if your divisor is negative.

He's a teacher what the **** do you expect, your cool 25 year old neighbor who throws loud parties as your teacher?

Anyways, decided to draw out my other type of polynomial division.

Basically, you put your dividend on top of the bracket and the divisor outside (drop all the X's). You drop the first number of the dividend down and multiply by the divisor, then place it under the second number of the dividend. Add these two and repeat. When you're done, just move everything back one power from its original (if the first was 3x^4 it becomes 3x^3 and so on). Should look like this.

This is also used to find factors of polynomial equations, such as (X + 2) is also a factor of the example given, as shown here.

As long as you get the pattern it's pretty easy, no need to deal with variables. Only thing is, say your dividend is 4x^5 + 2x^4 - 7x^2 + 9 you have to take all of the missing powers (x^3, x^1) and sub in 0 so that in your division bracket you will see

Divisor | 4 + 2 + 0 - 7 + 0 + 9

And yes, this will have a large effect on your result, especially if your divisor is negative.

Whoa, whoa, whoa- noone gives a ****.

Woah I think we just crossed some boundaries here.

For a simple math question this thread has turned ridiculous you should be ashamed or yourselves.

Yeah, but you could just not write out the equations, or google image some **** and use those as examples.

In the mean time, here is a picture of poop.

Woah I think we just crossed some boundaries here.

For a simple math question this thread has turned ridiculous you should be ashamed or yourselves.