Question

Divide: 8a^8–20a^6 +2a^4/
4a^3

Answer 1

This comes out as 2a⁵ - 5a³ + a / 2

Explanation:

We could use long division for this but since the denominator is a single term, we can just divide each term by that individually

`(8a^8 - 20a^6 + 2a^4)/(4a^3) \\\\= (8a^8)/(4a^3) - (20a^6)/(4a^3) + ( 2a^4)/(4a^3) \\\\= 2a^5 - 5a^3 + (1)/(2)a`