MATH 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Negative Number, Factor 5, Greatest Common Divisor

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To factor means to find two or more quantities whose product equals the original quantity. To factor out a common factor,(1) find the largest common monomial factor of each term and (2) divide the original polynomial by this factor to obtain the second factor. Factor: 5 x2 + 4 x = x(5 x + 4, 2 y3 (cid:1679) 6 y = 2 y( y2 (cid:1679) 3, x5 (cid:1679) 4 x 3 + x2 = x2( x3 (cid:1679) 4 x + 1) When the common monomial factor is the last term, 1 is used as a place holder in the second factor. Factor: x2 (cid:1679) 144 = ( x + 12)( x (cid:1679) 12) Note: x2 + 144 is not factorable: a2 (cid:1679) b2 = ( a + b)( a (cid:1679) b, 9 y2 (cid:1679) 1 = (3 y + 1)(3 y (cid:1679) 1) Factoring polynomials having three terms of the form ax2 + bx + c.

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