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Is the ideal generated by ${4,x}$ a principal ideal in $Z[x]$?
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If $\langle4,x\rangle$ was a principal ideal, then you would have $\langle4,x\rangle=\langle p(x)\rangle$, for some $p(x)\in\mathbb{Z}[x]$. Is this true? What can you tell about a polynomial $p(x)\in\mathbb{Z}[x]$ if you know that $p(x)\mid4$ and that $p(x)\mid x$?