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Factoring: Prepared By: Mr. Reiniel Mark A. Sison Reviewed By: Ms. Angeline A. Relos For Educational Purposes Only

The document discusses several techniques for factoring polynomials: 1. Common factoring involves finding the greatest common factor of all terms and factoring it out of each term. 2. The difference of two squares and sum and difference of two cubes factorizations use roots to break polynomials into binomial factors. 3. Perfect square trinomials and quadratic trinomials can be factored by finding two binomial factors whose product equals the original polynomial. 4. Completing the square allows certain trinomials to be factored by regrouping terms to form a perfect square plus or minus a constant.

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Factoring: Prepared By: Mr. Reiniel Mark A. Sison Reviewed By: Ms. Angeline A. Relos For Educational Purposes Only

The document discusses several techniques for factoring polynomials: 1. Common factoring involves finding the greatest common factor of all terms and factoring it out of each term. 2. The difference of two squares and sum and difference of two cubes factorizations use roots to break polynomials into binomial factors. 3. Perfect square trinomials and quadratic trinomials can be factored by finding two binomial factors whose product equals the original polynomial. 4. Completing the square allows certain trinomials to be factored by regrouping terms to form a perfect square plus or minus a constant.

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Module 4

Factoring

Prepared By: Mr. Reiniel Mark A. Sison


Reviewed By: Ms. Angeline A. Relos For Educational Purposes Only
Factoring

Factoring is the process of getting the factors of a given polynomial.

Factoring Techniques

1. Common Factor

Form: ( )

Example:

Step 1: Identify the greatest common factor (gcf) of each term.

Step 2: Divide each term by the greatest common factor and write the result inside a
parenthesis.

⇒ ( )

Step 3: Write the greatest common factor outside the parenthesis.

⇒ ( )

2. Difference of Two Squares

Form: ( )( )

Example:

64

Step 1: Get the square root of the first term and the second term.

⇒√ and √

Step 2: Write the sum of the first and second term beside the difference of the first
and second term.

⇒( )( )

Prepared By: Mr. Reiniel Mark A. Sison


Reviewed By: Ms. Angeline A. Relos For Educational Purposes Only
3. Sum and Difference of Two Cubes

Forms: ( )( )

( )( )

Examples:

Step 1: Get the cube root of the first term and the second term.

⇒√ and √

Step 2: Get the square of the answers in Step 1.

⇒( ) and ( )

Step 3: Get the product of the answers in Step 1.

⇒( )( )

Step 4: In a parenthesis, write the cube root of the first term, the sign of the second
term and the cube root of the second term.

⇒( )

Step 5: Add the answers in Step 2 and add the answer in Step 3 then write it inside
a parenthesis. Note: We add the answer in Step 3 because the given is subtraction.
If the given is addition, add the answers in Step 2 and subtract it by the answer in
Step 3 then write it inside a parenthesis.

⇒( )

Step 6: Write the answer in Step 4 beside the answer in Step 5.

⇒( )( ) ( )( )

⇒( )( )

Prepared By: Mr. Reiniel Mark A. Sison


Reviewed By: Ms. Angeline A. Relos For Educational Purposes Only
4. Perfect Square Trinomials

Forms: ( )

( )

Examples:

Step 1: Get the square root of the first term and the third term.

⇒√ and √

Step 2: Write the square root of the first term, the sign of the second term, and the
square root of the third term inside a parenthesis with outside.

⇒( )

⇒( )

5. Quadratic Trinomials

Forms: ( ) ( )( )

( ) ( ) ( ) ( )( )

Example:

Step 1: Get the factors of the first term. One of them will be the first term of the first
binomial and the other will be the first term of the second binomial.

⇒ and

Step 2: Get the factors of the last term. One of them will be the second term of the
first binomial and the other will be the second term of the second binomial.

⇒ and –

Step 3: Arrange the terms so that if you multiply the two binomials the result will be
the given. Note: You may use trial and error in this step.

⇒( )( )

Prepared By: Mr. Reiniel Mark A. Sison


Reviewed By: Ms. Angeline A. Relos For Educational Purposes Only
6. Factoring by Completing a Perfect Square Trinomial

There are two ways on how to complete a perfect square trinomial.

Examples:

(1)

Step 1: Multiply the product of the square root of the first and third term by two.

⇒(√ )(√ )( ) ( )( )( )

Step 2: Subtract the answer in Step 1 by the second term of the given.

Step 3: Add the answer in Step 2 to the second term and subtract it from the whole
trinomial.

⇒( ( ) ) ( )

Step 4: Get the factors of the new trinomial and note that this step will form a
difference of two squares.

⇒( ) ( )

Step 5: Get the factors of the answer in Step 4.

⇒( )( )

7. Factoring by Grouping

Example:

Step 1: Rearrange and group the terms by two’s.

⇒( ) ( )

Step 2: Apply any of the previous factoring techniques suitable in factoring the group
of terms.

⇒( ) ( )

( ) ( )

( )( )

Prepared By: Mr. Reiniel Mark A. Sison


Reviewed By: Ms. Angeline A. Relos For Educational Purposes Only

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