Factorising Harder Quadratics

Bracket Expansion and Factorisation

Factorising Harder QuadraticsSlideshow 16 MathematicsMr SasakiRoom 307ObjectivesEasy QuadraticsExample3

Answers4Typical QuadraticsAs you should know, we were lucky with the questions on the last worksheet. Usually its more complicated.

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Finally, we group the first two and last two terms.6Typical QuadraticsLets try one more example.

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Squaring / Square RootingLets have a bit of practice!

9Evil QuadraticsSome of those quadratics were tough to factorise because some big numbers have a lot of factorsor factors that are hard to find.

10Evil QuadraticsDo you remember the formula for solving a quadratic equation?

Lets try factorising using this with an easy example.

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11ExampleIs this correct?No!Evil Quadratics12Evil Quadratics13Answers - Regular

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