Gordon recently started jogging. Last week he jogged for 15 minutes. Starting this week, he decided to add 2 minutes to his jog
1 answer:
You might be interested in
3 | 1 5 -8 6
. | 3 24 48
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
. | 1 8 16 54
That is to say,
The remainder is 54.
Another way of doing it is to apply the polynomial remainder theorem, which says the remainder upon dividing a polynomial by
is exactly
. So recognizing that the listed coefficients refer to
we find