Thread: i need help NOW with my algebra please

Originally Posted by helpmee

so is it:

3t^2+2t+1?

because 27 divided by 9 is 3, and 18 divided by 9 is 2, and 9 divided by 9 is 1? so what do you do after that?

Good!!

But I am a dunce and wasn't paying enough attention. TheOwne is right. This one doesn't factor nicely so using the quadratic formula is your best bet.
Sorry about that. You factored out the nine really nicely though!

but our teacher says that we need to factor it, we are almost done with this chapter, and we havent used the quadratic formula in it. he just told us that if it "cant be factored" you just dont solve it and you write "cant be factored"... so that cant be factored? so i just write cant be factored to satisfy my teacher for now?

Originally Posted by helpmee

ok im understanding this more... [: thanks. so like what about a big one like this: 27t^2+18t+9?

Next time start a new thread please it helps those see what questions have been answered...and for this one factor our the common factor of nine and proceed

Originally Posted by helpmee

but our teacher says that we need to factor it, we are almost done with this chapter, and we havent used the quadratic formula in it. he just told us that if it "cant be factored" you just dont solve it and you write "cant be factored"... so that cant be factored? so i just write cant be factored to satisfy my teacher for now?

Yep,

ORIGINALY POSTED BY TheOwne
Have you learned the quadratic formula? If you can't do it simply, then you can use the quadratic formula.



But you can't do that here because b^2-4ac gives you a negative value, which you can't take the square root of..

..so there's no roots for this...

There are no roots as TheOwne said. So yeah, it isn't factorable. I guess unless factoring out the nine was all that your instructor wanted. Cause that is as far as it goes.

ok im just gunna write that [: thankss *applause*