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How do you factor this trinomial? :

How do you factor this trinomial? :-example-1
User Marcelocra
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the pic is blurry, but looks like 18x²-21x-15
(3x-5)(6x+3) is the factored form.
3 and 6 are the factors of 18
-5, 3 or -3, 5 are the factors of -15
I line them up like this
3 -5
6 3
then I multiple them diagonally: 3*3=9, -5*6=-30, the sum of 9 and -30 is exactly -21, the coefficient for x. (If the sum doesn't make -21, I'd switch -5 and 3, or change to -3 and 5 to try again.)
so the factored form is (3x-5)(6x+3)


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