How To Do Factoring
Education : Maths Let's imagine you are asked to factor: 2xy^2 + 2xyz How to do it? It's quite simple: look for the COMMON TERMS between the two expressions, and then put these outside the brackets, and the remnants inside. So, with this equation notice that we have 2xy on BOTH sides of the equation. Thus we re-arrange to this: 2xy(y + z) So, in summary this type of question is really just pattern spotting: see the common pattern between both sides, and the factor presents itself.
Questions about gcse maths:use four 4s to make all of the numbers from 0 to 50. You may use any mathemati...- Mon, Jun 23rd 2008
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