Question

When the factors of a trinomial are (x+ p) and (x + q) then the coefficient of the x-term in the trinomial is what?

Answer 1

(x+p)(x+q)

think of it in reverse,
to factor the original trinomial, you must have picked the numbers "p" and "q" such that they addup to the coefficient of x-term right ?

Answer 2

so the coefficient of x term would be simply "p+q"

Answer 3

do you need more?