Unit
Factoring
MA, Stanford University
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MA, Stanford University
Teaching in the San Francisco Bay Area
Alissa is currently a teacher in the San Francisco Bay Area and Brightstorm users love her clear, concise explanations of tough concepts
When you're asked to do any kind of factoring, you should always look for a greatest common factor, or GCF, first. In the trinomials presented here, we factor out a a GCF and then are left with a trinomial where the leading coefficient is one. From there, we factor by looking for two integers that multiply to the last term of the trinomial and sum to the middle term.
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