document.write( "Question 26950: Thank you for your help! I have now come upon another type of equation on this worksheet that I don't understand. example: 25x^2-15xy+2y^2 I am not sure how to factor using trail and error on this one because of all the variables. \n" ); document.write( "
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Solve just as if you only had 1 varialbe;
\n" ); document.write( "25x^2-15xy+2y^2
\n" ); document.write( "There are 3 givens;
\n" ); document.write( "25 is a perfect square, there is the variablr x and y so they both are in the factor, and since the last sign is + and the first is -, you now both signs are going to be -;
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\n" ); document.write( "what two facots =2? 1,2
\n" ); document.write( "(5x-y)(5x-2y)
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