Question

If the middle term of a quadratic trinomial is negative and the last term is negative, then
the sum of the factors for the middle term must be __

Answer 1

Answer:

Negative

Step-by-step explanation:

Years of Factoring:

What the problem tells us is that we have:

X^2 - 4x - 3

or something along these lines. If we factor this we get:

(X-4)(X+1)

The bigger inside factor has to be negative for these problems, because the third term is negative.

Answer 2

Answer:

negative is correct

Step-by-step explanation:

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