Are you the main factor? {Are you important?}



India Robinson Ashley Holland
Monaisia Livingston





Did you ever have to factor something that didn’t need that much work? Well factoring quadratic equations isn’t really hard. Quadratic is an expression or equation with highest exponent equal to 2. To solve a quadratic equations you have to (1) find the square root of the first and the last term but make sure they can add up to be the middle term. (2)Put the first and the last term together but make sure they can add up to be the middle term.(3) Put the remaining factors together in parenthesis. (4) You should use FOIL (first, outer, inner, & last) to check to make sure your answer is correct.



(1) X^2+8X+16
(2) X^2-10X+25
(3) X^2+14X+49
(4) Y^2-20X+100
(5) X^2+3X-9
(6) X^2-18X81
(7) X^2+12X-144
(8) Y^2-6X+36
(9) X^2+22x+121
(10) X^2+26X+169
(11) X^2+2X-24
(12) P^2+2P-48
(13) W^2+2W-8
(14) X^2-12X+8
(15) X^2-7X+12
..………………………………………………………………………
(11) X^2+2X-24

(X+6) (X-4)
(12) P^2+2P-48

(P-6) (P+8)


(13) W^2+2W-8

(W+4) (W-2)


(14) X^2-8X+12
(X-6) (X-2)


(15) X^2-7X+12
(X-4) (X-3)





This blog posting is about problems that are so simple. It’s about quadratic equations. You don’t have to do much to know how to solve them. All you need to do is be able to recognize square roots. It’s all logic. When you are able to do this it saves you time and space because there is not much to do. If you can do this you can be successful in solving quadratic equations. In the examples that were solved all I did was isolate the first and last terms and simplified them using square roots or finding the factors that give you the middle term and multiply to give you the last term. That’s all there is to it.