Question

How does being able to identify the terms in a polynomial help you in factoring? Explain.

Answer 1

@cj49 @triciaal

Answer 2

huhm is that so? I thought it generally doesn't help much

Answer 3

u mean identifying the power

Answer 4

Click on the "Read More" and post what it says. That might help answer this general question.

Answer 5

:( @aum

Answer 6

lol. That didn't help. :(

Answer 7

We determine all the terms that were multiplied together to get the given polynomial. We then try to factor each of the terms we found in the first step. This continues until we simply can’t factor anymore. When we can’t do any more factoring we will say that the polynomial is completely factored.

Here are a couple of examples.


This is completely factored since neither of the two factors on the right can be further factored.

Likewise,


is not completely factored because the second factor can be further factored. Note that the first factor is completely factored however. Here is the complete factorization of this polynomial.



The purpose of this section is to familiarize ourselves with many of the techniques for factoring polynomials.

Answer 8

http://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/Classes/Alg/Factoring.aspx

Answer 9

ty sm <3

Answer 10

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