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Sunday, December 20, 2009

FOIL

First of all, you have to know how to add, subtract, and multiply integers. The easiest way to show how to do this is to work out a few examples.
x2+5x+6
This is pretty basic. We are looking for two numbers that add to 5 and multiply to 6. Of course, the numbers are 2 and 3. So our factored expression is (x+2)(x+3). The numbers you would put in the four solution boxes are 1,2,1,3 because the coefficient in front of the x is understood to be 1.

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