Question

PLEASE HELP WILL FAN AND MEDAL

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Answer 1

@Photon336

Answer 2

Well, do it.

Factors of 4

1*4
2*2

Which pair can give you a 3?

Answer 3

Before we do anything, what do you think the answer is?

Answer 4

I don't know how to factor this it's weird to me. My guess would be putting x^2-3x-4 into the equation on the other side...

Answer 5

Yeah, factoring is one of this things that takes practice

Answer 6

so first thing you want to do is look at the term in the middle, what is the middle term both the value and the sign of that term?

Answer 7

@WhatEven we will do this step by step

Answer 8

3x

Answer 9

positive or negative?

Answer 10

negative

Answer 11

When factoring theres a step called foil.



we know that the middle term is -3x right?

and the last term is - 4.

x^2-3x-4

(x )(x )

we see what terms would give us -4 and -3




this is what foil means



let's try this out.



Then we multiply the inner terms (I)



now we combine all our steps.