week 11 – factoring trinomials using a box

During this week in math, we learned how to factor trinomials by using a new method which is a 4 sided box.

So what you do with the box is you put the first term in the top left corner and the last term in the bottom right corner. And then you gotta find the 2 numbers  one that is equal to the mid term when adding and one that is equal to the product of first term x last term when multiplying. Once you find out those numbers you put that in the box and find out the numbers in common in each row. And then all you have to do is write out the numbers as equation.

 

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