(3-2x-x^2)=(x+3)(1-x) not (3-x)(1-x) like you had.how is that wrong??
When you do a few of them, you can do it easily in one step but in the meantime, the way you suggested is good:I have always problem factorising negative quadratics -.-
I know you pull -1 out (change signs) and then factorise; is that it?
If you are good at factorising quadratics, you dont have to. But majority of people do as you have indicated, not being confident doing quadratics with a negative x^2 term directly.I have always problem factorising negative quadratics -.-
I know you pull -1 out (change signs) and then factorise; is that it?
When you do a few of them, you can do it easily in one step but in the meantime, the way you suggested is good:
3-2x-x^2=-(x^2+2x-3)=-(x+3)(x-1)=(x+3)(1-x)
An easy way to confirm that your answer was wrong was that you had (..-x)(..-x) which would give x^2 when multiplied out not -x^2.
Either, it doesn't matter. You could even leave it the way I had it. The reason I changed (x-1) to (1-x) is because that looks a lot neater than (-3-x) which has two negatives.aha thanks but wjen you change the sign of the roots, how do we decide which root's sign to change?
Either, it doesn't matter. You could even leave it the way I had it. The reason I changed (x-1) to (1-x) is because that looks a lot neater than (-3-x) which has two negatives.
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