SOLUTION: How do you solve X^2+2x+1 by factoring

Question 18367: How do you solve X^2+2x+1 by factoring
Answer by Alwayscheerful(414) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
first, you make something that looks like this.

Take the last number of the equation, 1.
What are factors of that numbers, in other words, what times what equals 1?
Obviously
Then just plug 1 and 1 into the empty spaces.

since they are the same, you can stack them.

Hope this helps!
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