Factoring Review Jeopardy

Identify the GCF

100

24 and 36

What is 12?

200

18x and 27

What is 9? 

300

-35x⁴, 7x², 84x⁸

What is -7x²?

400

12x²y² and 32x⁴y³

What is 4x²y²?

500

39v², 30u³v, 18u²v⁴

What is 3v? 

Factor by GCF

100

4x² - 40

What is 4(x² - 10)

200

2m⁵ + 14m³

What is 2m³(m² + 7)?

300

-15x² + 10x

What is -5x(3x - 2)?

400

-9x⁷y⁵ + 3y⁶x²

What is -3x²y⁵(3x⁵ - y)?

500

18m⁴n³ - 27m²n² - 45m²n

What is 9m²n(2m²n² - 3n - 5)?

Factor by Grouping

100

m³ - m² + 2m - 2

What is (m² + 2)(m - 1)?

200

12a³ - 9a² + 4a - 3

What is (3a² +1)(4a - 3)?

300

5x³ - 10x² + 3x - 6

What is (5x² + 3)(x - 2)?

400

x⁵ - 3x³ - 5x² + 15

What is (x³ - 5)(x² - 3)?

500

21xy + 14xb - 18by - 12b²

What is (7x - 6b)(3y + 2b)?

Factor Trinomials

100

x² + 8x + 12

What is (x + 6)(x + 2)?

200

2a² + 5a - 12

What is (a + 4)(2a - 3)?

300

4n² - 15n + 9

What is (4n - 3)(n - 3)?

400

7x² - 7x - 504

What is 7(x - 9)(x + 8)?

500

4x³ + 16x² - 20x

What is 4x(x + 5)(x - 1)?

Miscellaneous

100

The way you can check your work to see if you factored correctly. 

What is multiplication?

200

This is ALWAYS the first step in factoring.

What is looking for a GCF? 

300

This is the reason we bother learning factoring.

What is solving quadratic functions?

What is finding zeros of a quadratic function? 

400

Factor: 9x² - 121

What is (3x + 11)(3x - 11)?

500

Miss Shrider's favorite topic that will show up on your final exam (hint: it is NOT factoring!)

What is polynomial operations?

(adding, subtracting, and multiplying polynomials)