Unit
Factoring
MA, Stanford University
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One strategy that will eliminate the guess and check work of factoring trinomials is turning a trinomial into a four term polynomial and then using factoring by grouping. In order to decide how to expand the middle term, use a "diamond puzzle" to find what two values have a product of "a times c" and sum to "b."
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