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[wanna-b-ballin']

alright, so my math teacher just assigned me some crap, and did a real crappy job at giving us notes about it. looking in my book didn't really help me. so i came here.

"find the greatest common factor of the terms in the polynomial"

14X^2 + 8X +72 is one of the many i have to solve. what do i do? where do i start?

supposedly i have to multiply 14 and 72, which gives me 1008, then find two numbers that multiply to get 1008, but add to get 8.

another kid in my class told me to bring out a 2, but then wtf do i do then?

any help is appreciated.

[Target Practice]

Go back in the book, and read the examples. Read the section. See how it is explained in the book, and see how the examples are done. Do this before asking for help.

[wanna-b-ballin']

thats the thing. i did.

all the examples dont really relate.

the example is AX^2 + BX + C
all the other examples have C^2

when C is squared, it makes it easier. but it isn't. so i dont know what to do.

[tropical_fishy]

alright, so my math teacher just assigned me some crap, and did a real crappy job at giving us notes about it. looking in my book didn't really help me. so i came here.

"find the greatest common factor of the terms in the polynomial"

14X^2 + 8X +72 is one of the many i have to solve. what do i do? where do i start?

supposedly i have to multiply 14 and 72, which gives me 1008, then find two numbers that multiply to get 1008, but add to get 8.

another kid in my class told me to bring out a 2, but then wtf do i do then?

any help is appreciated.

There are no real factors in that equation. So you either wrote it down wrong here, or you're going about solving the problem the wrong way. If you use the quadratic formula you can pretty easily see that 8^2 < 4(14)(72).

Do what TP said. If you still need help, I'll be around on AIM.

[MayAMonkeyBeYourPinata]

Either use the quad formula, or factoring is basically just guess and check

[nippinout]

(X^0.5)^2 = X

Every real number can be rewritten into exponential form.

In the case of positive numbers, the square of its square-root. Or the square-root of its square.

I'm a mathemagician by trade.

By the way, that's a horribly written problem.

You only have an X in two of the three terms (Excluding X^0, which equals 1. It may help to think of the term without an X as having X^0). That is obviously not a common term. Do you remember how to factor a number? Factor the coefficients, and the greatest common factor is the solution. Well, as far as I am understanding the problem.

[Target Practice]

By the way, that's a horribly written problem.

Well, most textbook problems are.

[tropical_fishy]

(X^0.5)^2 = X

Every real number can be rewritten into exponential form.

In the case of positive numbers, the square of its square-root. Or the square-root of its square.

I'm a mathemagician by trade.

By the way, that's a horribly written problem.

You only have an X in two of the three terms (Excluding X^0, which equals 1. It may help to think of the term without an X as having X^0). That is obviously not a common term. Do you remember how to factor a number? Factor the coefficients, and the greatest common factor is the solution. Well, as far as I am understanding the problem.

You can't factor that problem into real numbers though, only imaginary ones. b^2 - 4ac is a negative number, and thus the solution to the radical is imaginary.

[nippinout]

You can't factor that problem into real numbers though, only imaginary ones. b^2 - 4ac is a negative number, and thus the solution to the radical is imaginary.

Again, this is a horribly written problem. From the looks of it, this is an expression. An expression of incompetence and irrelevance.

You can factor the expression by pulling out common terms. Distributive property is very strong kung-fu.

[tropical_fishy]

Again, this is a horribly written problem. From the looks of it, this is an expression. An expression of incompetence and irrelevance.

That sounds like my precalc teacher!

[Lohman446]

alright, so my math teacher just assigned me some crap, and did a real crappy job at giving us notes about it. looking in my book didn't really help me. so i came here.

"find the greatest common factor of the terms in the polynomial"

14X^2 + 8X +72 is one of the many i have to solve. what do i do? where do i start?

supposedly i have to multiply 14 and 72, which gives me 1008, then find two numbers that multiply to get 1008, but add to get 8.

another kid in my class told me to bring out a 2, but then wtf do i do then?

any help is appreciated.

You start with what is on the other side of that = sign.... You can plug in any number for X and have a valid equation, the answer would be different but, since you have no answer now

[CKY_Alliance]

alright, so my math teacher just assigned me some crap, and did a real crappy job at giving us notes about it. looking in my book didn't really help me. so i came here.

"find the greatest common factor of the terms in the polynomial"

14X^2 + 8X +72 is one of the many i have to solve. what do i do? where do i start?

supposedly i have to multiply 14 and 72, which gives me 1008, then find two numbers that multiply to get 1008, but add to get 8.

another kid in my class told me to bring out a 2, but then wtf do i do then?

any help is appreciated.

well i dont know what the ^ is about but without that i would do guess and check get all the factors for 2 and 72 then find the ones that add or subtract to equal 8 and you would be adding since the signs are the same,well i just tried to figure it out but idk becasue that extra 2 so yea i guess my input is useless

[wanna-b-ballin']

i kinda figured out what it wanted late last night.

as for doing something with whats on the other side of the =, there is no = in that equasion. i'd assume it equals zero.

and the ^ sign . 26^2 would be 26 squared. or 26^3 would be 26 cubed.