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How do you factorise?

Factorising is just simplyfying into brackets. To do this you need to find common terms on all the parts of the question. For example: fully factorise 3a 3 b+12a 2 b 2 +9a 5 b 3 the answer to the is 3a 2 b(a...
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Answered by Elizabeth W. • Maths tutor
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How do you factorise a quadratic with a co-efficient in front of the x^2 - e.g: 3x^2 + 14x + 8

Ok so to factorise a quadratic with a co-efficient in front of the x^2 you need to follow a couple of steps: Step 1 - multiple the co-efficient by the number at the end of the expression - e.g. 3^8 = 24 Step...
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What is Pythagoras' Theory?

Pythagoras' Theory explains that the length of sides in a right angled triangle are related. This means we can use the length of two sides to find that of the third! The relationship he found is a 2 + b 2 = ...
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Answered by Alexander R. • Maths tutor
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Factorise the quadratic equation: x^2 + 5x + 6 = 0 and hence find the two solutions to the equation.

Start by writing the equation out again: x 2 + 5x + 6 = 0 I do it by thinking which two numbers add together to = 5 and which same two numbers multiply to = 6. The answer to this is 2 and 3. So the next step...
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Work out 64^2/3

64/4/4=4 4x4=16 n.b no square root function on my divice
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Answered by Thomas L. • Maths tutor
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