I'm assuming you're asking about negative or positive signs here. When I factor binomials, it depends on what would make factoring simpler for me. And how you're factoring the binomial too.

More often than not, it's going to be positive. For example, 4x^2 - 2x = 0. That would factor out to be 2x(2x-1) = 0. The sign outside is going to be positive because it's simpler to solve that way. Here, x is equal to 0 and equal to 1/2. Taking out a negative in this case would complicate the solving process.

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3 years ago

The quotient of 24 and -8

rusak2 [61]

The answer to your question is -3

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Create an equivalent expression for 9(5x - 4) by using the distributive property.

Bogdan [553]

Answer:

3(15x-12)

Step-by-step explanation:

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3 years ago

The numbers that satisfy the equation a =5.

madam [21]

<h2>Explanation:</h2>

We use an equation to say that two things are equal. An equation always has an equal sign "=". So an equation tells us that the left side is equal to the right side. In this case, we have the following equation:

$a =5$

So the only value that makes this equation to be true is 5, because:

$5=5$

For instance, let's choose another value, say, 8. So substituting:

$6 =5 \ \text{So this statement is false because} \ 6\neq 5$

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