Question

what is the factored form of 2x squared plus 20x plus 50

Answer 1

like a first step you can factorizing out 2 and will get

2(x^2 +10x +25) =

x^2 +10x +25 = x*x +5x +5x + 5*5 = x(x+5) +5(x+5) = (x+5)(x+5) = (x +5)^2

so than

2x^2 +20x +50 = 2(x+5)^2

hope so much that is understandably

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