Question

Consider the division of 8y2 – 12y + 4 by 4y.

What is the value of a and b?
a = 2y and b = 3
a = and b = –3y
a = 2y and b = –3
a = and b = 3y

Answer 1

8y^2 -12y +4 / 4y = 2y -3 so from this result that a=2y and b= - 3
8y^2
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0 -12y
-12y
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0 4

hope i ve understood it right what wan being a and b because you dont wrote there in the text of this exercise

so than the 3rd choice is right

Answer 2

Notice that the dividend
`8y^2-12y+4` has tree terms with
`a=8y^2`,
`b=-12y`, c
`c=4`

Now, to divided our dividend
`8y^2-12y+4` by the monomial (single term)
`4y`, the easiest thing to do is divide each term of the dividend by the monomial:

`8y^2-12y+4` ÷
`4y` =
`(8y^2-12y+4)/(4y) =(8y^2)/(4y) -(12y)/(4y) +(4)/(4y)= 2y-3+(1)/(y)`

After performing the division we get that now
`a=2y` and
`b=-3`

We can conclude that the correct answer is a = 2y and b = –3