last question i swear..

Precal_Chris

wow and you guys knew how to do this all along...
thats crazy how do you guys know all of that?

Snazzy

Because most, if not all of us, have done this stuff years ago.

rocomath

LOL, I was the same way last summer. Math is awesome :) If you can, take up to Calculus 3 and you'll be happy :)

Precal_Chris

yeah at my high school they only have precal, cal AB, cal BC and then stats and stuff

but since i only have 2 more years of math left at highschool this year im taking precal
junior year im taking ap stats
and senior year im taking discrete math.. (easy math class but teaches you how to do real life stuff like balance check books and all that :/)

Feldoh

The shorter way is essentially an application of something called the power rule:

If [tex] f(x) = x^n then f'(x) = nx^{n-1}[/tex]

Wow, there are too many people trying to help :(

sutupidmath

Well, you will learn this stuff, don't worry about that. I didn't know you were still in high school...lol....

yourdadonapogostick

Feldoh, using words in latex looks messy.

sutupidmath

There is a way to write properly in LATEX, but i have no idea how, i also would be interested to know how to do it.

sutupidmath

Yeah, probbably that's true what you are saying. I'll have to look upon that...lol..

Thanks for reminding me!!!That's what ( i do not know how to say this) friends are for.

P.S. This is not supposed to be a joke. I really meant this.

yourdadonapogostick

I'd prefer not to resort to synthetic division.

Precal_Chris

thats what i did at first...
and i got the -x^3+4x^2-5 to go into (x+1)(-x^2 +5x -5)/(x+1) and so the (x+1) canceled...
but when i told everyone that i got -x^2 +5x -5 for my answer they said that there was no x+1 in the numerator and i had to go through the other equation...
and i just realized if i would have plugged in the -1 for all the x's i would have gotten -11 baack in like post number 15 XD

Precal_Chris

is this for like mostly college people or something?

sutupidmath

Well, one usually learns this stuff in calc 1. So, i wrongly guessed...lol..

yourdadonapogostick

I learned calculus in high school and I never went to college. I did join the military as a Naval Nuclear Mechanic, though.

Precal_Chris

oh yeah she said this last six weeks we are going to be doing a lot of calc stuff