Two kinds of question, so the student has to look at the divisor and choose the method. Dividing by x minus a number can be done by long division or by the synthetic table. Dividing by 2x + 3, or by a quadratic, cannot be done synthetically and has to be long division. Easy divides exactly; the harder levels leave a remainder to write as a fraction.
Carry on until the degree drops below the divisor.
The answer is x2−x−2+x+312.
Where students go wrong
Forgetting a missing term. If there is no x² term you still need a placeholder, because the columns have to line up. Writing the dividend with every power present, using zero where needed, prevents most of the damage.
Also called polynomial long division or synthetic division.
What you can put on this worksheet
Divide by x - c: long or synthetic division
v−52v3−8v2−13v+15→ 2v2+2v−3
Divide by ax + b or a quadratic: long division only
2v+5−10v2−31v−15→ −5v−3
Questions about these worksheets
Yes. Every dividing polynomials sheet is free to print and free to download as a PDF. There is no account to make, no email to hand over and no limit on how many you take.
Yes. The answer key prints on a second page, and you can choose whether it shows each question beside its answer or just the answers in a list.
Yes. Print straight from the page, or download the PDF and print that. The sheet is laid out for paper rather than squeezed off a screen, so there is room to work under each question, and the answer key comes out on its own page.
Precalculus is usually taken around 11th or 12th grade, though schools vary and plenty of students meet it earlier or later. Pick the difficulty rather than the grade: the easy level suits a first lesson on it, the hard level suits review before a test.
Yes, as many as you like. The questions are built fresh each time rather than picked from a fixed set of files, so pressing Generate gives a new sheet. That is what you want for a second class, a retake, or two students sitting next to each other.
That is the closest comparison, and Kuta Software is good software. It is also paid software you install on a computer. These worksheets run in a browser tab for free, with no account and nothing to install. Like Kuta, the dividing polynomials questions are generated when you ask for them rather than pulled from a fixed set of files, so two classes never get the same sheet, and the answer key comes with it.
Yes. There are three levels, and you can tick more than one for a sheet that mixes them, in which case the questions come out easiest first. The harder levels are not just larger numbers: they ask for something the easy ones do not.
You pick from 2: divide by x - c: long or synthetic division and divide by ax + b or a quadratic: long division only. Tick as many as you want and set how many of each, or let it spread them evenly.
Forgetting a missing term. If there is no x² term you still need a placeholder, because the columns have to line up. Writing the dividend with every power present, using zero where needed, prevents most of the damage.