This week in math I learned how to factor trinomial questions and here is one example of what I learned AND how to do it. My example is x² + 11x + 10. The first step is finding the factors of 10. To show this, for this question, the factors would be 10 and 1 and NOT 5 and 2 because 5 times 2 does equal 10 but only adds up to 7 which is not what the middle coefficient is. The other side 10 and 1 adds up to 11 and 10×1 equals 11 so therefore we would use it. In other words, those numbers must be able to be multiplied by each other AND added up by those numbers to make up the second number, in this case being 11. Following this step, it is pretty simple, as all you need to do is (x+10) (x+1). Is it very important to use the brackets. I also want to mention that if the variables were b, it would be (b+10) (b+1).

Below is a written example of how to do it.