Question

Bill keeps a colony of honeybees on his property. He has created an expression to represent the number of honeybees that are in the colony t years after he decided to create the colony. The expression Bill created is -16t4 + 160t2 – 144.

After deciding to create the colony, it took a fair amount of time to prepare before actually getting bees in his colony. After some time, the population in the colony started to decrease; eventually Bill lost his colony.
b. Factor out a negative 1 from the expression using a bracket. Then rewrite the first term inside the bracket as the square of a term.

Answer 1

@ganeshie8

Answer 2

@Hero

Answer 3

@dan815

Answer 4

@Michele_Laino

Answer 5

factoring out a negative one would be -(16t4-160t2+144)

Answer 6

then rewriting the first term would be -(4^2*t^2-160t2+144)

Answer 7

does that help you?

Answer 8

yes thank you

Answer 9

For future reference you do not have to ask, some people might take offense.