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Why couldn't you use synthetic division for the following problern? Make sure to explain fully.


(4x^(3) + 3x {}^(2) + x - 11) / (x ^(2) + 1)


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Because x²+1 has an imaginary solution so you can’t find a value to put on the side for synthetic division
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