How to solve 2x+1/x^7+5x^2-1

[aisha]

-2x+1/x^7+5x^2-1

x^7 is throwing me off the question didnt say what to do what do i do?

 

[maverick280857]

Yes Aisha what do you want to do?

 

[aisha]

Yes Aisha what do you want to do?

DIVIDE I GUESS
im not sure if i have to factor or use long division or synthetic I guess anything that will give me an answer
please help someone

 

[cepheid]

Did you try either of those methods? What reason do you have to believe that they won't work? We're still dealing with polynomials here...

 

[aisha]

Omg its an online course and that question came up and i didnt even know what I was doing but when I asked the teacher for the solutions she added in the question state the restrictions, so now I know what to do lol thanks everyone