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Question 181059: I am homeschooled with the School of Tomorrow. I have no teacher, and am struggling with factoring trinomials, particularly coefficients greater than one and complex factoring. Right now I am trying to solve Please help me!
Found 2 solutions by Mathtut, josmiceli:
Answer by Mathtut(3670) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!

:
x=-1/3 and x=-2

Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!

To locate the roots, set the equation equal to

Divide both sides by

I often try to factor by trying combinations that will
factor the outside terms and try to get the inside term,
for instance:
(3x + ?)(x + ?) I've got the 1st term factored, now for the 3rd
(3x + 2)(x + 1) Does this work?
not quite
How about
(3x + 1)(x + 2) ?
that's it
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Some are not this neat, and you have to use the quadratic equation

Use this when the form of the equation is

Some are not this neat, and you have to use the quadratic equation

and

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Multiply both sides by