How do you factor #x^2 + 6xy + 9y^2#?
1 Answer
May 20, 2015
You can factor this by grouping.
The coefficients of
So, we can rewrite our function as
and factor it by two groups of two terms each:
We can see that the parenthesis of each term are exactly the same, so we can use them as the common multiple of the whole equation that are multipling the rest:
Done!