Hi Mike,
Can you give me some help with question 10 in the Polynomials section of PWN (pg 149)? I plug in x=-3, per your suggestion, and I get 41 as the answer on the left-hand side of the equation and 3(-3) – 13 + a on the right. That means 41 = -22 + a, or a = 63. What am I missing? Thanks!