How do you factor the trinomial #x^2 - 14x + 24#?
1 Answer
The trinomial
Explanation:
Approach 1
Since both
After some experimentation, we arrive at our answer.
Approach 2
For quadratic equations in general, it often makes sense to simply go straight to the quadratic formula to solve for
It gives you
Approach 3
We use
In general we can express an equation as
so
Now you can solve these 2 equation for
But on close inspection we find
So the above equation is