Precalculus Examples

$\frac{x^{2} - 2 x - 8}{x^{2} - 9}$

Step 1

Synthetic division can only be used when dividing by a linear factor.

This problem cannot be solved using synthetic division

$[\begin{array}{c} x^{2} & \frac{1}{2} \\ \sqrt{π} & \int x d x \end{array}]$