Question

How do you factorise x^2+7x+6?

Answer 1

We have `p(x) = x^2 + 7x +6`
Thus, `p(x) = x^2 + 6x + x + 6`

`implies p(x) = x(x + 6) + 1(x+6)`
`implies p(x) = (x+6)(x+1)`

That's it.