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When Two Binomials Contain Only Positive Terms, Here Are Strategies To Determine The Product of The Binomials

1. Determine the signs of a, b, and c 2. Use the sign of c to determine if the two factors will be the same or opposite 3. Use the sign of b to determine if the factors will both be positive or one positive and one negative 4. Find the two numbers that multiply to c and sum to b to write the completely factored form

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When Two Binomials Contain Only Positive Terms, Here Are Strategies To Determine The Product of The Binomials

1. Determine the signs of a, b, and c 2. Use the sign of c to determine if the two factors will be the same or opposite 3. Use the sign of b to determine if the factors will both be positive or one positive and one negative 4. Find the two numbers that multiply to c and sum to b to write the completely factored form

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When

two binomials contain only positive terms, here are strategies to


determine the product of the binomials. i.e. (c + 4)(c + 2)

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Method 1: Algebra Tiles Method 2-A: Distributive Property

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Method 2: “FOIL” = First, Outside, Inside, Last


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Method 3: Punnett Square / Area Method /Box Method

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Method 4:

Assignment: Pages 165 – 167, # 4(a,c), 5, 9(a,c), 10, 12(a,c,e,g), 13, 18


3.5 continued

Factoring and multiplying are inverse processes. We can use this to factor a trinomial.
When a trinomial contains only positive terms, we may use algebra tiles to factor it.

e.g. 𝑥 " + 5𝑥 + 6

Method 1: Multiply to c and add to b.


_ – _ = c _ + _ = b

Example:

_ – _ = c _ + _ = b
Therefore, the numbers are -2 and +6.
_ – _ = - 12 _ + _ = 4 We factor the trinomial into two binomials that are
being multiplied together. The variable is “x”, so the
*Multiplied to a negative, so one “b” is positive, answer is: (x-2)(x+6)
positive, one negative number. therefore the
(If positive, then both numbers will be greater number is
positive, or both will be negative) positive.

1–12 (-1) + 12 = 11

2–6 (-2) + 6 = 4

3–4 (-3) + 4 = 1

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Assignment: Pages 166 – 167, #6, 11, 14, 15, 17, 21, REFLECT
Key Ideas :

ax2 + bx + c

Steps :

1. if a is not 1, look for GCF.


2. c tells us that:
̋ + ̋ means both numbers are the same.
̋ - ̋ means that one number is positive and one number is negative.
3. b tells us that:
̋ + ̋ means either both numbers are positive (if c was positive), or the bigger number is positive
(if c was negative).
̋ - ̋ means that either both numbers are negative (if c was positive), or the bigger number is
negative (if c was negative)

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