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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2004 ib Paper 4 2F i Solution by
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Use the Eisenstein criterion with prime . The leading coefficient is one; every lower coefficient, including the zero coefficients, is divisible by ; and the constant coefficient is not divisible by . The polynomial is monic and hence primitive. Therefore it is irreducible over .
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