Math test

[Mosinowner]

10X^2-12X-10

Factor this trinomial. I have seen allot of post on the web about how math is easier today than it was in the past. How many of you can do this without cheating?

 

[sepe]

I can. Are you wanting proof?

 

[74J10]

I don't think the way it is written it is really a facoting problem. Consolidate "x" terms, then if you want factor out the negative.

10x-12x-10=-2x-10=(-1)(2x+10)

If you want it factored do you want 10x^2-12x-10?

 

[Mosinowner]

If you want it factored do you want 10x^2-12x-10?

Forgot the ^2 sorry

 

[LANShark42]

42

 

[Mosinowner]

I can. Are you wanting proof?

Well yes.... If you claim you can

 

[Mr Evilwrench]

There's nothing to factor there. You factor an equation, and those have = in them somewhere. As written it can only be simplified.

 

[Mosinowner]

There's nothing to factor there. You factor an equation, and those have = in them somewhere. As written it can only be simplified.

Its finding the factors of B

A:10^2
B:-12X
C:-10

 

[Brandon]

Wait a second... It has changed...

 

[sepe]

Well yes.... If you claim you can

The answer is do your own homework, junior.

2(5x^2-6x-5)

 

[Double T]

10X^2-12X-10

Factor this trinomial. I have seen allot of post on the web about how math is easier today than it was in the past. How many of you can do this without cheating?

2x(x-6)-10=2(5(x^2)-6x-5)
That's pretty much all you can do for simplification.

 

[Mosinowner]

The answer is do your own homework, junior.

2(5x^2-6x-5)

Actually this was last unit in math...... I wouldn't let the INGO guys do my HMWK I am too honest for that

 

[sepe]

Actually this was last unit in math...... I wouldn't let the INGO guys do my HMWK

I was tempted a few times a couple semesters back but even if they explained their answers, there was no way I was going to understand Calculus. Still got a B though.

 

[Mosinowner]

Simplifying
10X2 + -12X + -10

Reorder the terms:
-10 + -12X + 10X2

Factor out the Greatest Common Factor , '2'.
2(-5 + -6X + 5X2)

Final result:
2(-5 + -6X + 5X2)

 

[kawtech87]

Aint to mutch wit ta berk lernin. Taint nevr doed mi no gud anyhow.

Seriously though, I suck at math.

 

[SSGSAD]

Simplifying
10X2 + -12X + -10

Reorder the terms:
-10 + -12X + 10X2

Factor out the Greatest Common Factor , '2'.
2(-5 + -6X + 5X2)

Final result:
2(-5 + -6X + 5X2)

I do NOT have a clue, I grad, in 1974, NEVER saw anything like that !!!!! ( that I remember.)

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

I had to refresh my memory a bit as my old way of doing these didn't work:

Factoring Trinomials

but it looks to me that the best you can do: 2(5x^2-6x-5)

 

[Hoosier8]

Simplifying
10X2 + -12X + -10

Reorder the terms:
-10 + -12X + 10X2

Factor out the Greatest Common Factor , '2'.
2(-5 + -6X + 5X2)

Final result:
2(-5 + -6X + 5X2)

I thought you said no cheating?

http://www.algebrahelp.com/calculators/expression/factoring/calc.do?expression=10x^2-12x-10

 

[sepe]

This problem was easy enough to do in your head in a couple seconds. You don't need to cheat. If you can't do it in your head, write it down and you see that after you factor out a 2 you've got nowhere else to go.

 

[Mosinowner]

I thought you said no cheating?

http://www.algebrahelp.com/calculators/expression/factoring/calc.do?expression=10x^2-12x-10

I said that for you guys Also it would have been pretty embarrassing if my work was wrong right?

This problem was easy enough to do in your head in a couple seconds. You don't need to cheat. If you can't do it in your head, write it down and you see that after you factor out a 2 you've got nowhere else to go.

Sepe the point wasn't for me to get the answer. It was to see if all the post online about math being harder back then being true.