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Date

Lesson
Practice B
1.4 For use with the lesson Solve ax2 + bx + c = 0 by Factoring

Factor the expression. If the expression cannot be factored, say so.

Lesson 1.4
1. 3x 2 1 10x 2 8 2. 2x 2 1 5x 2 3 3. 4x 2 1 4x 1 1

4. 2x 2 2 5x 1 1 5. 4x 2 1 5x 2 6 6. 2x 2 1 11x 1 15

7. 9x 2 1 12x 1 4 8. 12x 2 2 24x 1 9 9. 18x 2 2 2

10. 12x 2 1 17x 1 6 11. 15x 2 1 8x 2 16 12. 4x 2 2 5

13. 12x 2 2 39x 1 9 14. 18x 2 2 9x 2 14 15. 20x 2 2 54x 1 36

16. 42x 2 1 35x 1 7 17. 212x 2 2 x 1 11 18. 80x 2 1 68x 1 12

Solve the equation.

19. 2x 2 1 3x 2 2 5 0 20. 2x 2 2 3x 2 9 5 0

21. 4x 2 2 8x 1 3 5 0 22. 9x 2 2 4 5 0

23. 8x 2 2 6x 1 1 5 0 24. 18x 2 1 48x 5 232

25. 9x 2 1 11x 1 18 5 210x 1 8 26. 5x 2 2 2x 2 6 5 23x 2 1 6x

27. 5x 2 2 3x 1 3 5 22x 2 1 3 28. 25x 2 2 24x 2 9 5 27x 2 1 12x 2 18

Find the zeros of the function by rewriting the function in intercept form.
29. y 5 3x 2 1 2x 30. y 5 12x 2 1 8x 2 15
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31. f(x) 5 5x 2 2 25x 1 30 32. y 5 25x 2 1 10x 2 24

33. g(x) 5 33x 2 2 9x 2 24 34. y 5 4x 2 1 1

Find the value of x.

35. Area of the triangle 5 27 36. Area of the rectangle 5 22

2x 1 1
3x

3x 1 1
4x 1 1

37. Picture Frame You are making a frame of uniform width x

for a picture that is to be displayed at the local museum.
The picture is 3.25 feet tall and 3 feet wide. The museum
3.25 ft
has allocated 15 square feet of wall space to display the
picture. What should the width of the frame be in order
to use all of the allocated space? x
x 3 ft x

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Lesson 1.4 Solve ax2 + bx + c 35. 2 36. }
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= 0 by Factoring, continued
Practice Level C
24; they are the same.
1. (4x 2 3)(x 2 3) 2. (3x 1 4)(2x 2 7)
19x; they are the same.
3. (5x 1 2)(2x 1 5) 4. (3x 1 4)(3x 1 4)
6. The trinomial and product of binomials in
5. 23(2x 2 3)(2x 1 3) 6. 4(3x 1 2)(x 2 4)
Question 1 are different. The trinomial and
product of binomials in Question 5 are equivalent. 7. 23(5x 1 4)(x 2 1) 8. x(3x 2 1)(2x 2 1)
9. cannot factor 10. x 2(2x 1 3)(2x 1 3)
Practice Level A
11. 3x 2(4x 2 3)(2x 1 3) 12. 4x(6x 2 5)(3x 2 7)
1. (2x 1 1)(x 1 2) 2. (2x 1 1)(x 1 1)
13. (x 2 1 9)(x 2 3)(x 1 3)
3. (3x 2 1)(x 1 2) 4. (2x 2 1)(x 2 1)
14. (2x 2 1 3)(x 2 1 1)
5. 2(2x 2 1)(x 1 1) 6. (3x 1 1)(2x 2 3)
15. 3(2x 2 2 1)(x 2 1)(x 1 1)
7. (5x 2 4)(x 1 1) 8. 3(3x 1 2)(x 2 1)
1 5 3 3 1
9. (4x 1 1)(x 1 3) 10. 2(3x 2 2)(x 1 1) 3, 3 17. 1, }
16. } 2 18. 2}4, }
4 19. 21, } 6
11. (2x 1 3)(2x 2 3) 12. 4(x 2 1)(x 1 1) 4 3 3 7 4 7 3 5
20. 2}, } 21. 2}, } 22. 2}, }
23. 2}4, }
7
13. 2(x 2 2)(x 2 3) 14. 3(x 1 1)(x 2 4) 3 2 2 9 3 4
15. 3(3x 2 1)(3x 1 1) 16. 4(2x 1 1)(x 2 3) 2 2 2 7 3
24. 2}, 4 25. 1, 2 26. 2}, 2 27. }, }
28. }
2
5 3 3 5
17. 2(2x 1 3)(2x 1 3) 18. 5(3x 1 2)(2x 2 1)
29. 10 30. 99x 2 1 2900x 2 38,900 5 0; 100 ft
1 3 1 2 1
2, 1 20. 2}2, 21 21. }
19. } 2, }
3 22. 2}3, 3 Study Guide
3 3 5 1 1. 2(x 2 6)(x 2 1) 2. 3(x 1 1)(x 1 7)
23. }, 1 24. 2}, } 25. 22, 3 26. 2}, 3
4 2 2 2 3. 6(x 2 3)(x 2 4) 4. 4(x 2 2)(x 1 3)
2 5. 5(x 1 1)(x 2 5) 6. 3(x 2 6)(x 1 2)
27. 21, } 3 28. 1, 2 29. 23, 1 30. 24, 2
3

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3 1 1 5 3 7. x 56} 8. x 5 2 9. x 5 21, x 5 4
31. } 32. 2}, } 33. 2}, 2} 5
2 3 3 2 2
10. The length is 6 in. 11. The shop should
34. 3 35. 2 36. B 37. 1.5 ft charge $60/bike to maximize weekly revenue of
Practice Level B $3240.
1. (3x 2 2)(x 1 4) 2. (2x 2 1)(x 1 3) Interdisciplinary Application
3. (2x 1 1)(2x 1 1) 4. cannot factor 1. about 210 yd 2. about 60 yd
5. (4x 2 3)(x 1 2) 6. (2x 1 5)(x 1 3) 3. about 287 yd 4. about 361 yd
7. (3x 1 2)(3x 1 2) 8. 3(2x 2 3)(2x 2 1) Challenge Practice
9. 2(3x 2 1)(3x 1 1) 10. (4x 1 3)(3x 1 2) 1. Sample answer: c 5 23, (2x 2 1)(x 1 3);
11. (5x 2 4)(3x 1 4) 12. cannot factor c 5 212, (2x 2 3)(x 1 4)
13. 3(4x 2 1)(x 2 3) 14. (6x 2 7)(3x 1 2) 2. Sample answer: c 5 28, (3x 1 2)(x 2 4);
15. 2(5x 2 6)(2x 2 3) 16. 7(3x 1 1)(2x 1 1) c 5 225, (3x 1 5)(x 2 5)
17. (212x 1 11)(x 1 1) 18. 4(5x 1 3)(4x 1 1) 3. (22, 23), } 1
4 11
3, } 2
3
1 3 1 3 2 2
19. 22, } 2 20. 2}2, 3 21. } 2, } 2 22. 2}3, } 3
1
3
4. 2} 2
2, 24 , (3, 23)
1 1 4 5 2 1 3
4, }
23. } 2 24. 2}3 25. 2}3, 2}3 26. 2}2, } 2 5. (2n 2 2)(2n)(2n 1 2); An even integer is one
that is a multiple of 2. Because n is an integer,
3 3 3 2 3 5
27. 0, } 7 28. } 8, }
4 29. 2}3, 0 30. 2}2, } 6 2n is an even integer. You can add and subtract 2
from 2n to obtain a set of three consecutive even
6 4 8
31. 2, 3 32. 2}, } 33. 2} , 1 34. none integers. 6. 5 7. 24 club members
5 5 11

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