Chapter 8 Notes

Synthetic Division• Synthetic division is simply an algebraic version of shortdivision.• Polynomials must still be put in decreasing order by degreefor both the dividend and the divisor.• Missing terms must still be filled in with terms that have azero coefficient for both the dividend and the divisor.• In addition, the divisor must have the coefficient of xfactored out before synthetic division is performed andthen it must be redistributed to the quotient and theremainder.