Factorization: When an algebraic expression can be written as a product of two or more expressions, then each of these expressions is called a factor of the given expression. And the process is called factorization.
Example:
or
H.C.F of Monomials
H.C.F of Monomials H.C.F. of numerical coefficient
H.C.F. of Literal coefficient
Example:
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H.C.F of
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H.C.F. of
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Factorization of an expression by taking out the common factor
Case 1
When the expression is in the form of then proceed as follows:
Step 1: Find the HCF of all the terms of the expression
Step 2: Divide each of the terms with the HCF obtained in step 1
Let’s do an example. Factorize
Step 1: Find the HCF of which is
Step 2: Therefore, is common in all the terms.
Hence,
Case 2
In case if a polynomial is a common multiplier of each term of the given expression, then first take the common multiplier and then use distributive law.
Expression would look something like this…. In this case
is common and we could take that out
Let’s do one example for Case 2. Factorize:
Factorization of an expression by Grouping the Terms
The expression of the form
Factorizing the difference of two squares
Algebraic expressions like
Factorization of perfect square trinomials
The algebraic expressions of the form
can be factorize using the formula
or
Example:
Factorization of Trinomials of the form
In such a case, find two numbers and
such that
and
Let’s do an example for this as well.
Factorize,
Let and
be two numbers
Therefore and
. Hence calculating for
and
we get
and
. Therefore
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