Question

When the factors of a trinomial are (x+p) and (x+q) then the coefficient of the x-term in the trinomial is

Answer 1

In order to find the answer to this, we can multiply out the base factors of the trinomial using FOIL. This gives us x^2 + qx + px + pq. Next, we can combine like terms and get the base trinomial of x^2 + (q + p)x + pq. The coefficient of the x-term is therefore q + p.

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