ShmoopTube
Where Monty Python meets your 10th grade teacher.
Search Thousands of Shmoop Videos
Factoring Polynomials Videos 14 videos
There are a variety of methods for factoring trinomials, Complete the square! Use the quadratic formula! Or be a genius and do it in your brain!
Factoring polynomials allows us to group things—and everything's always better in groups. Well... almost everything.
Factoring polynomials by grouping is easy. You just combine like terms and then factor them out. Ta da!
ACT Math 2.3 Elementary Algebra 310 Views
Share It!
Description:
ACT Math: Elementary Algebra Drill 2.3. Factor 3x 2 + 3xy.
- Elementary Algebra / Factoring polynomials
- Product Type / ACT Math
- Foreign Language / Arabic Subtitled
- Foreign Language / Korean Subtitled
- Foreign Language / Chinese Subtitled
- Foreign Language / Spanish Subtitled
- Mathematics and Statistics Assessment / Quadratic and Other Polynomial Expressions, and Functions
- Intermediate Algebra / Roots of polynomials
Transcript
- 00:03
Here's your shmoop du jour: for you and your ...brain
- 00:06
Factor: 3x squared plus 3xy.
- 00:08
And here are the potential answers...
- 00:13
OK so what is this question asking?
- 00:16
Factor, baby.
Full Transcript
- 00:17
What's common in both terms?
- 00:19
Well, the 3 here is a screamer
- 00:22
and there's an x in both as well.
- 00:24
So factor out a 3x and we get 3x times the quantity x plus y.
- 00:30
And we are good. Thats it. Answer: B.