Struggling to Understand Polynomials?

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You will have to be a little bit more specific.
 
Since you weren't very specific, I'm going to guess your question and help you with it.

No, x^3/(2x^2-3x) 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.
 
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Need Some Help With Polynomials
Polynomial rhymes on Binomial and Trichomial.
Hope this helped!:smile:
 
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Is this a question or a statement?

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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