Factoring Week 3 of Remote Learning
Factoring Week 3 of Remote Learning
Name_________________________
Date__________________________
April12020
Factoring Worksheet - Remember to try to factor each problem as far as you can go.
Remember, you can always check your work by FOIL or Fancy Distributive Property to see if
your work is correct. Please check the first 6 problems by using FOIL.
You can always write prime for expressions that are unfactorable.
Ways to factor:
1. GCF
2. Trinomials with a=1 and a>1. You can window pane or guess when a>1 or multiply a
and c and look for the winning pair.
3. Difference of squares
4. Difference of cubes
5. Sum of cubes
6. Factor by grouping.
1. x2 + 5x − 6 2. x2 − 5x − 6
x2t6x X G x2tx Gx
1 1 6 11 61 111 1 1 61 11
6 x1
answer=_________________ Htt x 61
Answer=_____________
FOIL answer to verify your solution: FOIL answer to verify your solution:
Gt A H lxtT
y
x2 x G 42 6xtx G
X2 S
3. y 2
x2ts
− 12y + 20 4. x2 − x − 6
YZ 2y loytzo X 2 3 6
2 locy
K 4 31 2
yy y
K3c
Y lolly
answer=_________________ 2 Answer=_____________
FOIL answer to verify your solution: FOIL answer to verify your solution:
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5. x2 + 10x + 24 6. x2 − 25
x2t6xt4xt24 xp 512
4416 4616 txt 5Cx 5
4 416
answer=_________________ Answer=_____________
FOIL answer to verify your solution: FOIL answer to verify your solution:
a
1 141616 Htt Cx 5
e e
x't 6 4 124 2 5 5 25
X2t1oy x2
imy
7. 4x2 − 5x − 6
4 73 8 6
8. 10x2 − 20x
tox
4xt
answer=_________________ Answer=_____________
9. 5x2 − 10x − 15 10. 121x2 − 64y 2
51 2 2 3 Ahs Xx Sy
IIsixth i
answer=_________________ Answer=_____________
Iggy
a a 6 tl a 6 BX 2x 314
3x 2x 3 2xt3
answer=_________________ Answer=_____________
17. b4 − 81 18. x + x2 − 12
42 g 2 x'tx 12
2 4 3 12
b2 9 b tg XCxt4 31 14
b 3 bt3l bz
40
4 316
answer=_________________ Answer=_____________
Remember you can always check your work by foiling out the answer. Good luck!!
Extra question -
x2m − xm − 56
2m 8xmt7xm
56
XMxm 81 7 XM 81
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BONUS Question - Where have you used math since you have been gone?
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