We continued our polynomial unit this week. An important concept that we covered recently was division with polynomials. We’ve added, subtracted, and multiplied polynomials, but we haven’t divided. With polynomials, it’s not called division, it’s called factorization. We’ve factored before, but that was with only single numbers. This time it’s with polynomials.

In the first question, you can factor out a x, because there is an x in both terms. So the x factored out, and is placed on the outside of the brackets. In the second question, you can factor out a 2 from both terms, so the equation goes from 4x+6 to 2(2x+3).