Question 650112: Explain and demonstrate how to factor a trinomial in the form: ax^2+bx+c with an example where a, b and c are values
Answer by MathLover1(20849)   (Show Source):
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what you are looking for is called  and 
so, you have to to expand " " into  terms, such that one term will have a   with  and the other will have a with 
for example:
you are going find numbers that are factors of  (these are  ) ) that   to  ( )
these factors are  and 
so you would rewrite the equation as:
 (doing so,you didn't really change anything, because  , so the integrity of the expression is still there)
now you factor in parts. from the first part, take out  , from the second, take out
so, you have:
 . . . . (if you notice, both of the terms in the ()'s are the same, this will always happen if it doesn't, you have done something wrong
then you say:
 ...that's factored
if u multiply this out, you will get back to the original expression of
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