this week in math 10 i learned how to make a trinomial that has the “pattern” ( , x, #) look “nicer” if it was written out in a jumbled up order. ex 5x-
+40 is written as x,
, # rather than
, x, #. so we can write it as –
+5x+40 now, the
is negative so when we find the greatest common factor, we can take -5 instead of +5 to make it positive, which would also switch the other terms to their opposites, so –
+5x+40 is now -5(
-x-40)