SOLUTION: Choose and produce an equivalent form of an expression and understand the properties the quantity represents. 15. Your friend, Sara, missed school yesterday. Your teacher went ove

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Question 1031915: Choose and produce an equivalent form of an expression and understand the properties the quantity represents.
15. Your friend, Sara, missed school yesterday. Your teacher went over how to solve a function by factoring. Explain to Sara how to solve the two functions below by factoring. (show work)
f(x) = 2x2 – 5x – 7
f(x) = 2x2 – 32
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factor:
f(x) = 2x^2 – 5x – 7
= (x+1)(2x-7)
and
2x^2 – 32
= 2(x-4)(x+4)