anata Algebra - Factoring Polynomials Paul's Online Notes Home / Algebra / Preliminaries / Factoring Polynomials Section 1-5 : Factoring Polynomials - Practice Problems Solutions Back to Problem List 6. Factor the following polynomial by grouping. 18x + 33 — 62‘ — 112° Hide Solution + The first step here is to group the first two term and the last two terms as follows. (18 + 33) — (6x4 + 112°) Be careful with the last grouping. Because both of the terms were negative we needed to factor out an *-" as we did the grouping. Hide Step 2 We can now see that we can factor a 3 out of the first grouping and an «° out of the second grouping. Doing this gives, 182 + 33 — 624 — 11a* = 3 (6x + 11) — x3 (62 + 11) Hide Step 3¥ Finally, we see that we can factor a 6x + 11 out of both of the new terms to get, 18x + 33 — 62* — 112* =| (6x +11) (3 — «*) 2019 Paul Dawkins Page Last Modified 4/23/2018 htpltutorial math lamar edulSelutons!Alg/Factoring/Prab6.aspx wn