factor the trinomial
5w^2-25w+30

help please!

Question

factor the trinomial 
5w^2-25w+30

help please!

angela210793 · Answer

5w^2-25w+30 =5(w-3)*(w-2)

anonymous · Answer

Box method !!!

angela210793 · Answer

Wolfram's method :P
...wht is this Box,can u explain me pls?

anonymous · Answer

Well, this is a relatively easy one - coz you convert it into 5(w^2-5w+6) and really only need to worry about factoring w^2-5w+6 Which is the "easy case" , coz the coefficient of w^2 is 1. But when the coefficient of w^2 <> 1 , Read this: http://www.purplemath.com/modules/factquad2.htm http://www.purplemath.com/modules/factquad3.htm I used to hate factoring, until I discovered this method yesterday :)

anonymous · Answer

look at cdkomp's recent questions - had a chance to do quite a few of these :)

angela210793 · Answer

Let me see...I've always had problems with *faktorizing* :P

anonymous · Answer

LOL - no more faktorization problems

angela210793 · Answer

This seemed very interesting :)
I hope i understood tht :D Thanks a lot :D