Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2004/ib/paper-4/2f/i/solution

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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