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

What are the values of a and b?

a = 2y and b = 3
a = and b = –3y
a = 2y and b = –3
a = and b = 3y

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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

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