You can put this solution on YOUR website! There are two ways to completing this. I will show you the AC method.
Your problem states:
We want to multiply the 4 and 9 together
We want to multiply two things to get 36 and add up to be 12 (12 is the middle number and 36 is 4*9). The answer for this one would be 6 and 6 because:
and
A couple steps more, divide the middle up into:
I divided up the 6pq and 6pq because those were our answers, lastly, factor by grouping:
Key point in factor by grouping*
To factor by grouping, you will see two of the same things, in our case it was , we take one of those and you will see remains
which is why we got final answer
