How do you divide this?

[Timcago]

F(x)= x^3-5x+7
G(x)= x^2-1

Do i factor x^2-1 and get (x+1)(x-1) and do the division separatly and add/subtract the to together at the end?

How do you do the division on a problem like this?

 

[pka]

Is this calculus?
What are we to do with these two functions?

 

[Timcago]

Sorry meant to put it on algebra

I need to know how to divede F(x) by G(x)

 

[skeeter]

I assume youre dividing F(x) by G(x) ... \(\displaystyle \frac{F(x)}{G(x)}\)

ever done long division?

           x
         ----------------------------
x^2 - 1 | x^3 + 0x^2 - 5x + 7
          x^3        - x
        ---------------------------
                      -4x + 7

quotient is \(\displaystyle x + \frac{7 - 4x}{x^2 - 1}\)

 

[Timcago]

ya, i got that far. I was just thinking it was to easy to be true considering all my other problems were complex.

The fact that x^2-1 could be factored through me off. Thank you.