You can put this solution on YOUR website! Do you want to factor this problem?
If so... you have to think in terms of FOIL which stands for
First
Outside
Inside
Last
So you have:
Your first term is easy, because you need to come up with something that when multiplied, will result in . Soooo you can think of x times x = .
So now you have:
What do you fill in for the blanks? Well, from your original equation you have to think of numbers that will MULTIPLY to be -6, yet ADD to be +1. The -6 is the LAST term in the equation and the +1 refers to the middle term (1x) in the original equation.
A pretty typical way to reach 6 is to multiply but you want a -6, right? WELL, if you multiply you will get -6 but will you get 1x if you add those terms? No... you will get -1.
SO how about: AH! In that case you will get -6 by multiplying those terms and you will get +1 if you add them. So let's put that info in for factoring:
Now let's use FOIL and see if this factors correctly:
First: Ok, that works.
Outside:
Inside:
Now we have: Let's combine like terms: or....
So now you can see you have correctly factored the equation.
If that is not what you wanted to do with the equation, resubmit your question.
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