The scale of a map is 2 cm : 21 km. find the actual distance for 9 cm on the map.
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For this problem, we are going to use the Remainder Theorem. This says that for to be a factor of a polynomial
, then
. Essentially, it says that
is a factor if when you substitute
into the polynomial you get a result of 0.
Thus, in our case, when we substitute into the polynomial, we should get an answer of 0 if
is a factor of the polynomial. Given this information, we can solve for
:
The solution is c = 3.