Elementary Technical Mathematics

Published by Brooks Cole
ISBN 10: 1285199197
ISBN 13: 978-1-28519-919-1

Chapter 10 - Section 10.3 - Finding Binomial Factors - Exercise - Page 350: 30

Answer

$(b+6)(b-5)$

Work Step by Step

$b^2+b-30$ has no common monomial factors $=(\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ )(\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ )$ $=(b\ \ \ \ \ \ )(b\ \ \ \ \ \ )$ $=(b+\ )(b-\ )$ The factors of -30 must have unlike signs. $=(b+6)(b-5)$ 6 and -5 have a sum of 1 and a product of -30.
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