SOLUTION: I need confirmation on this problem involving factoring:
Factor Completely: 16x^4 - 40x^2 + 9 =
This is what I came up with:
8(2x^4 - 5x^2) + 1 is this correct? Thanks for
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-> SOLUTION: I need confirmation on this problem involving factoring:
Factor Completely: 16x^4 - 40x^2 + 9 =
This is what I came up with:
8(2x^4 - 5x^2) + 1 is this correct? Thanks for
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Question 173654: I need confirmation on this problem involving factoring:
Factor Completely: 16x^4 - 40x^2 + 9 =
This is what I came up with:
8(2x^4 - 5x^2) + 1 is this correct? Thanks for any assistance. Found 2 solutions by nerdybill, Fombitz:Answer by nerdybill(7384) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! 16x^4 - 40x^2 + 9 =
This is what I came up with:
8(2x^4 - 5x^2) + 1 is this correct?
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No
if you expanded your equation:
8(2x^4 - 5x^2) + 1
You would get:
16x^4 - 40x^2 + 1
Which is NOT the same as what you started with.
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The correct solution is:
16x^4 - 40x^2 + 9
(4x^2-1)(4x^2-9)
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Can't stop here either because it can be further factored:
(4x^2-1)(4x^2-9)
(2x+1)(2x-1)(2x-3)(2x+3)
You can put this solution on YOUR website! No that's not correct.
Let's expand what you got.
Let's try this.
Use a substitution to knock down the degree of the polynomial and hopefully make it look more familiar.
Let
Now substitute this into your equation.
Now you have a quadratic equation in u and you can look to factor the right hand side,
You can further factor the right hand sides,
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