Vocabulary
Polynomial Operations
GCF & Grouping Factoring
Factoring Part I
Factoring Part II
100

The process of breaking up a polynomial into smaller parts that multiply together to form the polynomial

What is factoring?

100

(2x + 5) - (x - 3)

What is x + 8?

100

The GCF of 5x + 20

What is 5?

100
The values for A, B and C in the trinomial 2x2 + 3x + 5

What are 2, 3 and 5?

100

All of the factors of 2x2 - 2

What are 2, (x+1) and (x-1)?

200

A polynomial that has 3 terms

What is a trinomial?

200

x(x2 + 3x - 4)

What is x3 + 3x- 4x?

200

The GCF of 9x3 + 3x2

What is 3x2?

200

The first step in factoring any trinomial

What is finding the GCF?
200

All of the factors of 18x2 - 32y2

What are 2, (3x + 4y) and (3x - 4y)?

300

The degree of a polynomial whose highest exponent is 2

What is quadratic?

300

(- 3x2 + 2x - 4) - (2x2 - 5x - 7)

What is -5x2 + 7x + 3?

300

All of the factors of 8x2 + 24x

What are 8x and (x + 3)?

300

All of the factors of 2x2+10x+12

What are 2, (x+3) and (x+2)?

300

All of the factors of 8x3 - 27

What are (2x - 3) and (4x2 + 6x + 9)?

400

The number 3 in the polynomial 4x2 + 2x + 3x5 + 4

What is the leading coefficient?

400

(2x + 1)(x3 + 2x2 + 2)

What is 2x4 + 5x3 + 2x2 + 4x + 2?

400

All of the factors of 4x3 + 8x2 + 7x + 14

What are (4x2 + 7) and (x + 2)?

400

All of the factors of 2x3 - 4x2 + 3x - 6

What are (2x2 + 3) and (x - 2)?

400

All of the factors of 14x2 + 49x + 21?


What are 7, (2x+1) and (x+3)?

500

What you get when you divide the leading coefficient of this polynomial by its constant:

x3 - 4x2 + x5 - 4 + 10x

What is -1/4?

500

(x - 2)(x2 + 2x + 4)

What is x3 - 8?

500

All of the factors of 6x3+9x2+12x+18

What are 3 and (x+ 2) and (2x + 3)?

500

All of the factors of -4x3 + 2x2 - 16x + 8

What are -2, (x2+4) and (2x - 1)?

500

All of the factors of 8x3 + 32x2 - 2x - 8?

What are 2, (2x+1), (2x-1), and (x+4)?