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Sep16-06, 10:53 PM   #1
 

Need Some Help With Polynomials


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Sep16-06, 11:18 PM   #2
 
You will have to be a little bit more specific.
 
Sep16-06, 11:49 PM   #3
 
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Since you weren't very specific, I'm going to guess your question and help you with it.

No, [tex]x^3/(2x^2-3x)[/tex] is not a polynomial; it's a rational function. You can think of this as the ratio of two polynomials. It doesn't exist when the 'denominator' polynomial has a zero. Can you solve that one? Hint: quadratics have two solutions (usually, and this one does). Be careful when dividing!

See
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Polynomial.html
for more information on polynomials.
 
Sep17-06, 01:44 PM   #4
 
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Polynomial rhymes on Binomial and Trichomial.
Hope this helped!
 
Sep17-06, 01:48 PM   #5
 
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Vet: How did your parrot die?
Mathematician: Polynomial.

(PS - know this is no place for stupid jokes, but I had to. )
 
Sep17-06, 02:37 PM   #6
 
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Need Some Help With Polynomials
Is this a question or a statment?

If it is a question, do you need help or are you offering it?

If it is a statement, I don't know what it means.
 
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