This can be done using long division that we have learned with numbers, except that each digit in the numeric long division is replaced with a number that can exceed 10.
Thus we can write the division as where the right most digit represent a number, and each number to the left represent an increasing power of x. ________________________ 1 +2 +1 | 1 +10 +13 + 39
We will use a first quotient digit of 1 and begin the division