Precalculus (10th Edition)

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Appendix A - Review - A.4 Synthetic Division - A.4 Assess Your Understanding - Page A34: 3

Answer

(d)

Work Step by Step

The conditions for the synthetic division are: 1) Divisor is always a polynomial of degree $1$. 2) Leading coefficient of the polynomial (divisor) is $1$. Now let us check option $(d)$. $x^4-5x^3+3x^2-9x+13$ is divided by $x^2+5$. Here the divisor has polynomial of degree $2$, which does not satisfy the condition 1 above. All the three other choices satisfy both conditions 1 and 2. Hence, the correct answer is option $(d)$.
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