I need some help with factoring trinomials, I've been working on this for a long time and can't seem to get it:

6x to the power of 2 -13x+2

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I need some help with factoring trinomials, I've been working on this for a long time and can't seem to get it:

6x to the power of 2 -13x+2

anonymous · Answer

http://www.graspr.com/videos/AS-A-Level-Maths-No-3-Factorise-from-www-mathstutor-biz

amistre64 · Answer

thats a quadratic; have you tried to factor it as a quadratic yet?

amistre64 · Answer

i see in my maths third eye...

(x-2)(6x-1)

anonymous · Answer

No I haven't, it's supposed to be a trinomial, maybe that's why I haven't been getting it.

amistre64 · Answer

i mistook trinomial to mean cubic lol

anonymous · Answer

a trinomial is a fancy way of saying an expression with three terms.
this is a quadratic equation, meaning it is a polynomial of the second degree. so you can factorize it using the link i posted,

amistre64 · Answer

the steps to solve that are easy to show on paper; but a pain to describe over a keyboard

anonymous · Answer

Okay, thank you!