Question

@DemolisionWolf
Sorry to bother you again, do you think you can help me with one more though?

Answer 1

hey

Answer 2

Part A i suppose is where you need some direction?

Answer 3

Yes.

Answer 4

so to factor
-16t^2 - 64t + 512

we need to find the factors of each coefficients, which are 16, 64, and 512
looking at it, i can see that
8 * 2 = 16
8 * 8 = 64
8 * 8 * 8 = 512

so, lets factor out a 8 out of all of it
8 ( -8t^2 - 8t + 64)

make sense so far?

Answer 5

8 ( -2t^2 - 8t + 64)
sorry

Answer 6

now, that it's simplier, I can see that each coefficeint has a factor of 2, so i'll pull a 2 out of each term

(8)(2)(-t^2 - 4t + 32)

Answer 7

(8)(2)(-t^2 - 4t + 32)

becomes
(16)(-t^2 - 4t + 32)

I can't have a -t^2, so i'll take the negative out and put it with the 16
(-16)(t^2 + 4t - 32)

now it's time to Factor, or FOIL in reverse, i'm going to ignore the (16) in front for a bit
(t^2 + 4t - 32)

i know this much
(t )(t )

now I need to figure out factors of 32
32 = 2*16
32 = 4*8
since the 4t term has a 4, and the 4*8=32 the 4 and 8 are different by 4, i'm going to pick the factors of 4*8

(t 4)(t 8)

now i need to put in the correct signs
i put the + with the 8 because my 4t term is positive
(t - 4)(t + 8)

so, those are my factors for t!

Answer 8

and u logged off.... >.<

Answer 9

Sorry, I had to take a break from all the math. Thank you so much for your help.

Answer 10

^_^

your questions are long and quite dificult..

Answer 11

Yeah I know, there was 5 of them. That's why I needed to take a break.

Answer 12

haha

your questions require ton's of algebra steps... like methods from like 5 chapters, haha

Answer 13

Haha, yeah, tell me about it. It gets very frustrating most of the time.

Answer 14

what college class is it, physics?

Answer 15

Actually, it's high school Algebra. Lmao

Answer 16

oh rad... haha