Question 35705: Can some one please help explain these in detail? I am so lost. Thank you
Factor completely:
9x^2 -16y^2
3x^2-2x-8
3x^2 + 12x +12
Thanks again for all your help!
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Found 2 solutions by rapaljer, Earlsdon:
Answer by rapaljer(4671)   (Show Source):
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Now,  is a difference of squares.
Secondly,  comes from a section that I call "Advanced Trinomial Factoring". This is a hard one for most people. You have to start off with a  which can only be factored into 3x*x.
The last times last must come out to a -8, so I would try a 4 times 2 or a 2 times 4 combination. By trial and error (see my website for details!), it turns out that the 4 should come first and the 2 should go second like this:
The outer times outer is -6x and the inner times inner is 4x for a total of -2x, which checks for the middle term.
 is a problem that turns out to be a perfect square trinomial (in my website, this is in with the difference of squares section).
You must first take out the common factor which is 3:
Next, factor the trinomial:
R^2 at SCC
Answer by Earlsdon(6294)  (Show Source):
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