{"id":17759,"date":"2026-05-02T19:20:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T13:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/remainder-by-factor-theorem-20\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T19:20:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T13:20:36","slug":"remainder-by-factor-theorem-20","status":"publish","type":"mcq","link":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/remainder-by-factor-theorem-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Remainder By Factor Theorem 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Find the remainder when P(x) = 4x^3 + (7)x + (5) is divided by x &#8211; (-1).<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"quiz-options wp-block-list\">\n<li>-6<\/li>\n<li>6<\/li>\n<li>-7<\/li>\n<li>16<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","topic":[2705],"subject":[1425],"education_level":[1896],"class_list":["post-17759","mcq","type-mcq","status-publish","hentry","topic-algebra","subject-mathematics","education_level-hsc"],"mcq_note":"Apply the Remainder Theorem carefully. When a polynomial P(x) is divided by x - a, the remainder is P(a). Here the divisor is x - (-1), so substitute x = -1 into the polynomial. P(-1) = 4(-1)^3 + (7)(-1) + (5) = -4 + -7 + 5 = -6. Therefore the remainder is -6.","mcq_options":[{"right":"yes","answer":"-6"},{"right":"no","answer":"6"},{"right":"no","answer":"-7"},{"right":"no","answer":"16"}],"multi_answers":"no","subject_terms":[{"id":1425,"title":"Mathematics","slug":"mathematics"}],"topic_terms":[{"id":2705,"title":"Algebra","slug":"algebra"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq\/17759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mcq"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=17759"},{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=17759"},{"taxonomy":"education_level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/education_level?post=17759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}