Today we looked at factoring using decomp.  This method takes longer, but will always work.

HOMEWORK:  Pg 177
#12 a,b
#13 a,b
#15 - all
18a

Tuesday's double block will be going over ALL factoring:

• GCF
• Trinomials in form x2 + bx + c
• Difference of Squares
• Perfect Trinomial Squares
• Trinomials in form ax2 + bx + c
• Short cut when a or c is a prime number
• Decomp
• Multi-step Questions