Find the remainder when 6x square + x 1 is divided by 3x – 1.

You wrote "6 x square plus x 1". What does the "1" mean in that? Did you intend "plus 1" so that you have "\(\displaystyle 6x^2+ x+ 1\)" to be divided by 3x- 1?

If you are not taking an algebra course where did you get this problem? If you are, surely you should know some basics for dividing a polynomial by a linear term! What have you tried?

Do you know how to do "long division" of numbers? For example, if you were asked to divide 89 by 21, you would observe that 20 divides into 80 4 times so your "trial divisor" would be "20". What would you do then? How many times will 3x divide into \(\displaystyle 6x^2\)?

And please do not just say "solve this". That comes off as bossy and rude!
 
And we aren't sure that [math]6x^2 + x + 1[/math] is correct, anyway.

-Dan
 
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