document.write( "Question 1209131: Fill in the blank with a constant, so that the resulting expression can be factored as the product of two linear expressions:
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document.write( "Let's try to factor it, thinking of \"FOIL\":\r\n" );
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document.write( "Let's try 2m and n for the \"Firsts\"\r\n" );
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document.write( "Then to get the 7n for the \"Inners\" we have to put a +7 in the right of the first parentheses.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Finally to get the -m for the \"LASTS\" we must put  in the remaining blank.\r\n" );
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document.write( "So when you FOIL that out you get\r\n" );
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document.write( "So the term we have to add is the \"OUTERS\" .\r\n" );
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document.write( "[You already had a - sign, so what we'd put in the blank would be . \r\n" );
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