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Lesson: Advance Algebra - 08t01

Factoring Polynomials, continued

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Now, for the rest of FOIL:

What Last terms will produce –16?

What Outer terms added to Inner terms will produce 6x?

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What factors of –16 add up to positive 6?

Answer: -2 and 8

Countinue

List out all the factors of the last term:

(1)(–16)

(2)(–8)

(4)(–4)

(–2)(8)

(–1)(16)

Which of the factors add up to 6?

Answer: –2   and   8 .
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