Question

can anyone help me with this subject?
-Factoring Algebraic Expressions

Answer 1

what do you have to factor?

Answer 2

i attached an example

Answer 3

what you want to do is write out all the factors for each term

Answer 4

so we can factor out an 8a^2 from all three and have 8a^2(x^2+x+1)

Answer 5

did you understand that?

Answer 6

it helps to reorder the terms
8a^2+8a^2x+8a^2x^2 and then you factor out the greatest common factor in all three which is 8a^2

Answer 7

@lastnerve, make sense?

Answer 8

yeah that helps with finding the greatest common factor. thanks.
but how do i solve something like this?

Answer 9

OK, we are doing the same step and that is factoring out the GCF (greatest common factor) in all three expressions

Answer 10

in this case, that is 3a

Answer 11

and so you are left with 3a(2x^2+3x+3)

Answer 12

because when you multiply all of them out, you get the original back

Answer 13

does that help you?

Answer 14

the last term was suppose to be a 5. lol. but i got it!

Answer 15

ok, great! :)

Answer 16

when you are all done, please close the question

Answer 17

how do i do that? im new to this sorry.

Answer 18

so you click on the best response if it helped you out and then there is a close button that you press

Answer 19

that will close the question

Answer 20

click on the best response that was the best to you to help you figure it out :)