Related topics: Factors and Multiples : Prime Factorization

Terminologies

• Root: the root of a number \(x\) is a number \(y\), which when multiplied to itself for \(nth\) number of times equals \(x\). The root of \(4\) is \(2\) since \(2x2 = 4\), two is multiplied to itself twice to get 4.

• Factors

• Prime

• Polynomial

Contents

• Perfect Squares
• Products of Binomials
• Grouping in Multiplication
• Factoring by Inspection
• Factoring Trinomials by trial and error
• Factoring by Grouping
• Cube of a Binomials
• The factors of \(a^n \pm b^n \)

Perfect Squares

Product of Binomials

Grouping in Multiplication

Factoring by Inspection

Factoring Trinomials by trial and error

Factoring by Grouping

Cube of a Binomials

The factors of \(a^n \pm b^n \)