What is the quotient when 2x^3-1 is divided by x - 1?

Step-by-step explanation:

Use synthetic division:

The coefficients of 2x^3 - 1 are {2, 0, 0, -1}.  Setting up synthetic division, we get:

1    /    2    0    0    -1

                2     2    2

          2     2    2     1

Note that the remainder is 1.  The same result would be obtained through long division.

The quotient is 2x^2 + 2x + 2 with a remainder of 1.  

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step-by-step explanation:

we can analyze the pattern at which the terms increase. let us denote , , , so that we can call

note the following:

the pattern: to get the next term value, we just add the next term number (e.g. 1st, 2nd, to the previous term value (term values are the given numbers in the question, 1, 3, 6, 10, 15,

from , to get to , we add

from , to get to , we add

etc.

we need to form a recursive formula, a formula that has the next term as a function of the previous term. so a possible recursive formula can be

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