Math 10 Week #11

We continued learning about factoring this week. We talked about difference of squares problems. Factor of squares problems can be written as (a^{2}-b^{2}) = (a+b)(a-b) or (a-b)(a+b).

An easy one is (x^{2}-25). That can be factored into either (x+5)(x-5) or (x-5)(x+5)

Another more complicated one is (x^{3}-16x). It is factored into x(x+4)(x-4), and then factored further into x(x+4)(x+2)(x-2).

 

 

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