SOLUTION: 50g^2-8 What do you do if its not a perfect square?

Question 587928: 50g^2-8
What do you do if its not a perfect square?
Answer by KMST(5328) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
I imagine you want to factor and are concerned that and are not perfect squares. Unless there is some evil teacher that wants to make you use some awkward square roots, there must be a way.
Fortunately and divide by 2 evenly, so your first factoring task would be to take out that common factor 2.
HINT: Always look for common factors first.
After that, you end up with perfect squares and , and wonder why you did not see it coming from the start.

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