SOLUTION: please help me i am having problems factoring this polynomial a^4+a^2 thanks aaron

SOLUTION: please help me i am having problems factoring this polynomial a^4+a^2 thanks aaron

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Question 275622: please help me i am having problems factoring this polynomial a^4+a^2 thanks aaron
Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

You can take

out.

If you are factoring over the reals, then you are done --

does not factor over the reals.

If you are factoring over the Complex numbers:

where

is the imaginary number defined by

John

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