Factoring Problem

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November 10th 2012, 03:45 PM
Jason76

Factoring Problem

How does

$1 - 9x^{2} + 24x^{4} - 16x^{6}$

become

$(1 - x^{2})(16x^{4} - 8x^{2} + 1)$ ?
November 10th 2012, 04:02 PM
Plato

Re: Factoring Problem

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jason76

How does
$1 - 9x^{2} + 24x^{4} - 16x^{6}$
become
$(1 - x^{2})(16x^{4} - 8x^{2} + 1)$ ?

@Jason76, you are basically lazy are you not?

You demand to know "How does...become"?

Are you to lazy to multiply $(1 - x^{2})(16x^{4} - 8x^{2} + 1)$ out to see how it all works?
November 10th 2012, 04:04 PM
chiro

Re: Factoring Problem

Hey Jason76.

You might want to look at this:

Rational root theorem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
November 10th 2012, 04:34 PM
Jason76

Re: Factoring Problem

$1 - 9x^{2} + 24x^{4} - 16x^{6}$

Pulling out x^{2}

$1 - [x^{2}(9 + 24x^{2} - 16x^{4})]$

$(1 - x^{2})(9 + 24x^{2} - 16x^{4})$

After that, nothing in the right linear has any common factor, so you can't do anymore. But that's not the final answer.
November 10th 2012, 04:55 PM
Plato

Re: Factoring Problem

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jason76

$1 - 9x^{2} + 24x^{4} - 16x^{6}$

Pulling out x^{2}

$1 - [x^{2}(9 + 24x^{2} - 16x^{4})]$

$(1 - x^{2})(9 + 24x^{2} - 16x^{4})$

After that, nothing in the right linear has any common factor, so you can't do anymore. But that's not the final answer.

You did nothing about replay #2.
Are you really that lazy?
November 10th 2012, 05:03 PM
Jason76

Re: Factoring Problem

Quote:

Originally Posted by Plato

You did nothing about replay #2.
Are you really that lazy?

You can't do anymore cause there are no more common factors from what I see. 9, 24, and 16 have no common factor.
November 10th 2012, 05:17 PM
Plato

Re: Factoring Problem

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jason76

You can't do anymore cause there are no more common factors from what I see. 9, 24, and 16 have no common factor.

Here is your basic problem.
If you do not have a complete understanding of how multiplication works, then you cannot understand factoring.
November 11th 2012, 02:32 AM
Petrus

Re: Factoring Problem

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jason76

How does

$1 - 9x^{2} + 24x^{4} - 16x^{6}$

become

$(1 - x^{2})(16x^{4} - 8x^{2} + 1)$ ?

Hello Jason!
First you use rational root theorem to find roots then you will use long polynom division to divide the root out.