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Section 6.5: Factoring by Grouping and a General Strategy for Factoring Polynomials Worksheet 6.5

Complete Factorization : a polynomial is factored completely if it can't be broken down any further.

Example: $5x^5-5x y^4$













Factoring Strategy

















Examples: Factor the following polynomial expressions.

$y^3 +7 y^2 -y - 7$

$245 s^3 \alpha-20 s \alpha^3$

$2 z p^2-2 z c^4$

$36t^2āˆ’25c^2āˆ’40cāˆ’16$

$u^2+2u+1+u \gamma+\gamma$