Respuesta :

Altho' I can guess what you have to do here, I'd much prefer that you share the instructions any time you post a problem.

There are several ways in which you could evaluate the given polynomial at x = 1/2.  I'm going to use synthetic division for this purpose; if you want some other approach, please say so.

        _____________________
1/2  /   3     2     -3       5
                3/2    7/4    -5/8
      ------------------------------
           3    7/2   -5/4    4 3/8

Thus, P(1/2) = 4 3/8, or 4.375, or 35/8.