Algebra-2

To divide the polynomial by (x - 1), we can use synthetic division. Let's go through the process step by step.

Step 1: Set up the synthetic division

We will use 1 for synthetic division since we are dividing by (x - 1). The coefficients of the polynomial (note that the coefficient for  is 0 since it is missing) are (1, -3, 0, 3, -1).

The setup for synthetic division looks like this:

  1  |  1   -3   0   3   -1

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