Respuesta :
[tex]3x^2+10x+8[/tex]
To factor the above quadratic equation using Earmuff Method, here are the steps:
1. Multiply the numerical coefficient of the degree 2 with the constant term.
[tex]3\times8=24[/tex]2. Find the factors of 24 that when added will result to the middle term 10.
1 and 24 = 25
2 and 12 = 14
3 and 8 = 11
6 and 4 = 10
Upon going over the factors, we will find that 6 and 4 are factors of 24 and results to 10 when added.
3. Add "x" on the factors 6 and 4. We will get 6x and 4x.
4. Replace 10x in the original equation with 6x and 4x.
[tex]3x^2+6x+4x+8[/tex]5. Separate the equation into two groups.
[tex](3x^2+6x)+(4x+8)[/tex]6. Factor each group.
[tex]3x(x+2)+4(x+2)_{}[/tex]7. Since (x + 2) is a common factor, we can rewrite the equation into:
[tex](3x+4)(x+2)[/tex]Hence, the factors of the quadratic equation are (3x + 4) and (x + 2).
Another way of factoring quadratic equation is what we call Slide and Divide Method. Here are the steps.
[tex]3x^2+10x+8[/tex]1. Slide the numerical coefficient of the degree 2 to the constant term by multiplying them. The equation becomes:
[tex]\begin{gathered} 3\times8=24 \\ x^2+10x+24 \end{gathered}[/tex]2. Find the factors of 24 that results to 10 when added. In the previous method, we already found out that 6 and 4 are factors of 24 that results to 10 upon adding. So, we can say that the factors of the new equation we got in step 1 is:
[tex](x+6)(x+4)[/tex]3. Since we slide "3" to the constant term, divide the factors 6 and 4 by 3.
[tex]\begin{gathered} =(x+\frac{6}{3})(x+\frac{4}{3}) \\ =(x+2)(x+\frac{4}{3}) \end{gathered}[/tex]4. Since we can't have a fraction as a factor, slide back the denominator 3 to the term x in the same factor.
[tex](x+2)(3x+4)_{}[/tex]Similarly, we got the same factors of the given quadratic equation and these are (x + 2) and (3x + 4).
