To figure out how many apples go into each basket, you'd tackle the division problem step by step. 3 goes into the first digit (4) once, so you write 1 above the division bar, above the 4 in 456 ...

Here's how the process of synthetic division works, step-by-step ... So \(- 2\) is the divisor. Now add the product you have just calculated (in our example \(- 6\)) to the coefficient above ...