How do you factor the expression #2x^4 + 16x#?
1 Answer
Mar 10, 2016
Explanation:
The idea is to transform the expression in a form where you can use the remarkable factorization identities.
Here we can use Factoring by Grouping to obtain:
Now, the second factor is a sum of cubes, then we can use the following identity:
where:
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