Math 060 WORKSHEET - Fenger Academy High School
|Math 060 WORKSHEET |NAME:_________________________ |
|7.1 Factoring Out the Greatest Common Factor and | |
|Factoring by Grouping | |
Last chapter we multiplied expressions. In this chapter we reverse the process and ask ourselves what factors make a certain product:
Multiplication Process: Factoring Process:
Given Factors, find the product Given the product, find the factors
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FACTORING
Factoring is the process of writing an expression as a product.
Example: Find the prime factorization of 360 (A factorization of 360 using only prime numbers)
GREATEST COMMON FACTOR (GCF)
The greatest common factor of two or more expressions is the largest (most factors) that is common to all the expressions. To find this, list each common factor and take the product.
Example: Find the greatest common factor of each group
a.) 66, 78,120 b.) [pic] c.) [pic]
FACTORING OUT THE GREATEST COMMON FACTOR
We are interested in common factors because we can use the distributive property to factor them out.
For example: [pic]
Example: Factor each expression by factoring out the greatest common monomial factor
a.) [pic] b.) [pic]
c.) [pic] d.) [pic]
e.) [pic] (Factor out –1) f.) [pic]
Sometimes the common factor may be a binomial: [pic]
this is exactly like: [pic]
Example: Factor each expression by factoring out the greatest common binomial factor
a.) [pic] b.) [pic]
Example: Factor each expression by factoring out the greatest common binomial factor
(take out a negative from the second term first)
a.) [pic] b.) [pic]
The above polynomials were grouped in a nice way to make the common binomial factor obvious. More often the polynomial will be given to us as four terms and we will have to group it and factor it. This is called factoring by grouping.
Factoring by Grouping: Apply this procedure if there are four terms given.
1.) Group two terms together that have a common monomial factor.
2.) Factor out the common monomial factor from each group.
3.) At this point, you should have produced a common binomial factor. If not, you
must regroup in step 1 and try over.
Example: Factor:
a.) [pic] b.) [pic] c.) [pic]
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