Finding the full factorisation of a polynomial, using the Factor Theorem and long division

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The factor theorem states that if $f(x)$ is a polynomial and $f(p) = 0$ , then $(x-p)$ is a factor of $f(x)$ .

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For this question, we are given that $(\simplify{x+{z}})$ is a factor of the polynomial

$p(x) = \simplify{x^3+({y}+{u}+{z})*x^2+({y}{u}+{z}{u}+{y}{z})*x+{y}{u}{z}},$

and we are then asked to find the full factorisation of $p(x)$ .

We know that $(\simplify{x+{z}})$ is a factor of $p(x)$ , so we can calculate the other factors of $p(x)$ through long division.

$\begin{align} &\simplify{x^2+({u}+{y})x+{u}{y}}\\ \simplify{x+{z}} \; &\overline{)\simplify{x^3+({y}+{u}+{z})*x^2+({y}{u}+{z}{u}+{y}{z})*x+{y}{u}{z}}}\\ &\;\, \simplify{x^3+{z}x^2}\\ &\qquad\quad \overline{\simplify[all,noLeadingMinus]{({u}+{y})x^2+({y}{u}+{z}{u}+{y}{z})*x+{y}{u}{z}}}\\ &\qquad\quad \simplify[all,noLeadingMinus]{({u}+{y})x^2+({u}{z}+{z}{y})x}\\ &\qquad\quad\quad\quad\quad \overline{\simplify[all,noLeadingMinus]{{y}{u}x+{y}{u}{z}}}\\ &\qquad\quad\quad\quad\quad \simplify[all,noLeadingMinus]{{y}{u}x+{y}{u}{z}}\\ &\qquad\qquad\quad\quad\quad \overline{0.} \end{align}$

We can then factorise $\simplify{x^2+({u}+{y})x+{u}{y}}$ into

$\simplify{x^2+({u}+{y})x+{u}{y}} =(\simplify{x+{y}})(\simplify{x+{u}}).$

Therefore, the full factorisation of $p(x)$ is

$\begin{align} p(x) &= \simplify{x^3+({y}+{u}+{z})*x^2+({y}{u}+{z}{u}+{y}{z})*x+{y}{u}{z}},\\ &= (\simplify{x+{y}})(\simplify{x+{z}})(\simplify{x+{u}}). \end{align}$

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