{"id":17973,"date":"2016-09-26T21:59:04","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T21:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=17973"},"modified":"2016-09-26T21:59:04","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T21:59:04","slug":"math-polynomial-long-division-when-to-add-a-0-missing-power-of-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/math-polynomial-long-division-when-to-add-a-0-missing-power-of-x\/","title":{"rendered":"Math:  polynomial long division:  when to add a 0 (missing power of x)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>The tutor continues about polynomial long division.<\/h1>\n<p>I put across the main idea of polynomial long division in <a href=\"?p=17914\">my Sept 24 post.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What if the polynomial is missing a power of x:  for example, like so<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/..\/images\/poly_long_div_missing.png\" style=\"display:block;margin:auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>In such a case, the question must be rewritten with a zero for the missing power of x:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/..\/images\/poly_long_div_missing1.png\" style=\"display:block;margin:auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Then, the question can be done as shown in <a href=\"?p=17914\">my Sept 24 post.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>HTH:)<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p>Travers, Kenneth et al.  <u>Using Advanced Algebra<\/u>.  Toronto:  Doubleday Canada Limited, 1977.<\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tutor continues about polynomial long division. I put across the main idea of polynomial long division in my Sept 24 post. What if the polynomial is missing a power of x: for example, like so In such a case, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/math-polynomial-long-division-when-to-add-a-0-missing-power-of-x\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Math:  polynomial long division:  when to add a 0 (missing power of x)<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1913,1910,1904,1911,1912],"class_list":["post-17973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-math","tag-how-to-do-polynomial-long-division-with-a-missing-power-of-x","tag-missing-power-of-x","tag-polynomial-long-division","tag-when-to-add-a-0-in-polynomial-long-division","tag-when-to-add-a-zero-in-polynomial-long-division"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17973"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17985,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17973\/revisions\/17985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}