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need to find factors of 7 that add up to 5. Since 7 can be written as the product of 2 and 3, and since 2 + 3 = 5, then we'll use 2 and 3. Now, you know from factoring numbers that this quadratic is formed from multiplying two factors of the form "(x + m)(x + n)", for some numbers m and n. Draw parentheses, with an "x" in the front of each:
will find factors of the constant term that add up to the middle term, and use these factors to fill in your parentheses.
You may refer to factoring "by grouping", which is covered in siimple factoring. In the case of factoring, using just gives you some extra work. For instance, in the above problem, you would still have had to find the factors of 6 that add to 5. But instead of just filling in the parentheses, you would have done these steps:
x + 9x + 6 = x2 +
. Here are some more examples:
The constant term is 6, which can be written as the product of 2 and 3 or of 1 and 6. But 2 + 3 = 5, so 2 and 3 are not the numbers I need in this case. On 6)
Note that the order doesn't matter in multiplication, so the answer could equally correctly be written as "(x + 7)(x + 1)".
The constant term is 6, but the middle coefficient this time is negative. Since multiplied to a positive six, then the factors must have the same sign. (Remember that two negatives multiply to a positive.) Since we're adding to a negative (–5), then both factors must be negative. So rather than using 2 and 3, as in the first example, this time we will use –2 and –3:
In this case, you are multiplying to a positive six, so the factors are either both positive or both negative. You are adding to a negative seven, so they are both negative. Factors of 6 that add to 7 are 1 and 6, so use –1 and –6:
Since you are multiplying to a negative six, you need factors of opposite signs; that is, one will be positive and the other will be negative. The larger one will have a "plus" sign, however, because you are adding to a positive 1. And you need the factors to be one apart. The factor pairs for six are 1 and 6, and 2 and 3. This second pair are one apart, so you want to use 2 and 3, with the 3 getting the "plus" sign so the 2 gets the "minus" sign.
There is one special case, by the way, for factoring. Back when you were factoring plain old numbers, there were some numbers that didn't factor, such as 5 or 13. Recall that they are called "prime" numbers. The terminology is the same for polynomials:
In other words, there is no pair of factors of –6 that will add to +7. And if something isn't factorable? It's prime. Then x2 + 7x – 6 is "prime", or "unfactorable over the integers" (because we couldn't find integers that would work).