Question

Someone help me with factoring??
(4x^2 - 7x - 2)/(8x^2 +2x^2 + 4x +1)

Answer 1

Mmm factoring can be a little tricky when you have a coefficient on the square term.
There's a neat little trick I learned recently for solving these, maybe it will be helpful.

Answer 2

So let's start with this one:\[\Large 4x^2-7x-2\]Is of the form:\[\Large ax^2+bx+c\]So we need to fill in these parts, then on the left and right we can figure out the factors that we need.
We want our factors to multiply to give us a*c, but also add to give us b.