First find all possible rational roots. To do this, find all the factors of the lowest order coefficient and the highest order coefficient. For #1, the highest order coefficient is 1 because the x^3 doesn't have a number in front of it. The lowest order coefficient is 30.
Here are all the factors:
Factors of 1 are: 1
Factors of 30 are: 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 10, 15, 30
Now divide each factor of 30 (positive and negative), and divide them by each factor of 1.
Now we perform synthetic division like you have started to do. Try dividing the polynomial by each possible root. If the result has a remainder, that possible root does NOT work. Try another possible root. If there is not a remainder, you have found one of the roots.
For example, when dividing x^3 - 4x^2 -11x + 30 by the possible root 2, we get x^2 - 2x - 15 without a remainder. That means 2 is a root. From here we can factor the result to (x-5)(x+3).
If we use the information we got from the problem we can see that 8 gives us 12. So all we need to do is add more to the orignal number(8) unitll we get 15. So 11 cups gives us 15 cookies.
A chemical change results from a chemical reaction, while a physical change is when matter changes forms but not chemical identity. Examples of chemical changes are burning, cooking, rusting, and rotting. Examples of physical changes are boiling, melting, freezing, and shredding.
