Question

2 x squared plus x minus 36

Answer 1

2x^2+x-36?

Answer 2

are you factoring?

Answer 3

yes sorry

Answer 4

(2x+9)(x−4)
One Of Those

Answer 5

how do you factor it?

Answer 6

(x+)(x-) start with this. you know that there is one + and one - because 36 is negative.

Answer 7

ok

Answer 8

the 2 in front of the x^2 means you need the two xs from (x+)(x-) to multiply out to 2x. (2x+)(x-) 2x*x=2x^2

Answer 9

so it is (2x ) (x- ) so far?

Answer 10

yes, not you want to look at -x and -36 you need two number here. they have to add up to x but multiply out to -36

Answer 11

because of the 2 in front of the two x it doesn't always work this way.

Answer 12

there are no numbers that do that though....

Answer 13

9*-4=-36 right?

Answer 14

oh ya lol

Answer 15

so (2x+9)(x-4)?

Answer 16

plug them in to (2x+)(x-) (2x+9)(x-4) you can multiply them together to see if it works or not.

Answer 17

you got it

Answer 18

thank you so much!