6.2 Factoring Trinomials
Factoring Trinomials with Leading Coefficient of 1 • Factoring General Trinomials by Trial and Error • Factoring General Trinomials by Grouping • Factoring Perfect Square Trinomials • Factoring Completely
In Section 6.1, we saw that factoring expressions can be viewed as the reverse of multiplication. In this section, we apply this same idea to expressions with three terms, called trinomials. In order to factor trinomials, we must first understand the process by which two binomials are multiplied, and then reverse that process. In other words, we have to find two binomials that, when multiplied together, will equal the given trinomial. We begin with the simplest case, which is factoring trinomials in which the coefficient ...
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