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Introduction to Quadratics
DECOMP
Factoring by DECOMP (Product and Sum) is when you have an equation of the form ax^2+bx+c and you want to convert it to Factored Form.
To start off what you want to do is take the two values a and c and multiply them together. Then, with your answer, you will want to find a number that not only multiplies together to give you the product, but when you add the two numbers together they should give to the answer of the value b.
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