Question

what is factoring: problems involving factors of polynomials

Answer 1

Step-by-step explanation:

Factoring a polynomial is basically simplifying it by finding greatest common factors and writing it in a distributive property form

For example:

Factor $9a^2b^3c+18a^3b^2c^4+3a^2b^4c^2$

3 is a greatest common factor in the numerical coefficient.

$a^2$ is a greatest common factor

$b^2$ is a greatest common factor

$c$ is a greatest common factor

You would write it as $3a^2b^2c(3b+6ac^3+b^2c)$

If you meant like prime factorization, you just write a number as the product of prime numbers.

For example, 36 prime factorized is $2*2*3*3$ or $2^2*3^3$ because 4 and 9 aren't prime, so you need to factorize it further to 2*2*3*3