A General Approach to Factoring

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Chapter 6.4

• A General Approach to Factoring

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• Factor Special Cases
• Common Monomial Factor
• Difference of Two Squares
• Perfect Square Trinomial
• Difference of Two Cubes
• Sum of Two Cubes

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• Factor
• 9p 45

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• Factor
• 8m2p2 4mp

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• Factor
• 5x (a b) - y (a b)

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• Factor
• 64m2 - 9n2

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• Factor
• 8p3 - 27

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• Factor (The book has a misprint)
• 1000p3 1

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• Factor
• 25m2 121

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• Factor
• p2 10p 25

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• Factor
• 49z2 - 42z 9

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• Factor
• y2 - 5y - 6

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• Factor
• r2 18r 72

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• Factor
• 2k2 - k - 6

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• Factor
• 28z2 6z - 10

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• Factor
• xy2 -y3 x3 - x2y

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• Factor
• 20k3 4k2 - 45k - 9

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• Factor
• 4a2 4a 1 - b2

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• 6.4 1-72