Question

Factoring. Is this correct?

Answer 1

I got the answer
\[\frac{ -2 }{ 3 } \] and
\[x=-2\]

Answer 2

Hmm not quite

Remember that if you have a coefficient in front of the highest power, you have to take it out

\(\color{red}{3}x^2+8x+4\)

Turns to this
\((3x+\_)(x+\_)\)

Now you want to find the factors of 4

Could you list them?

Answer 3

The factors of 4? I only got 2,2 and 4,4

Answer 4

Careful, 1,4 not 4,4 :P

4*4 is 16, not 4

Answer 5

I divided 4 by 4. My math teacher said to divide to find the factors. I'm just not sure

Answer 6

Ah, do you understand what factors are?

Answer 7

not really...

Answer 8

I'm sorry. I just never learned these things.

Answer 9

School ends in 5 minutes. Can I close this post and come back to it later.

Answer 10

Factors are the 2 numbers that you multiply

For example,

\(3\times4=12\)
The factors here are 3 and 4

\(5\times 6=30\)
The factors here are 5 and 6


So in our problem to find the factors of 4, you want to find out what numbers will multiply to 4

\(\color{red}{2}\times \color{red}{2}=4\)
\(\color{red}{1}\times \color{red}{4}=4\)

This is where we got 2,2 and 1,4

Does this make sense? Feel free to ask questions too

Answer 11

No problem, feel free to open a question if you need help

Answer 12

Yes that makes sense.

Answer 13

Thank you very much. I have to go.

Answer 14

Thanks for helping me :)