Need Algebra factoring help

[hightecrebel]

The other concept that you want to lookup is FOIL, since factoring is basically undoing the FOIL process.
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Hope you get a helpful tutorial!

Now I'm wishing I'd asked this question a week ago. It's making a lot more sense now, especially with what NAP posted. Thank you all, and I'm going to go beat my head on the wall for not grasping this before, as it's seeming so much easier now. I've gone from not getting any of them right to getting a little over half correct on first attempt, and at least a few of the 'incorrect' are me fat-fingering. Now I need to finish up Int Alg and push through Coll Alg, Pre Calc, and Calc to get my brain firing the correct way again so I can knock out the CLEP's and apply them to my second CCAF in addition to the ALEKS applying to TESC.

[NAP]

:hurray: That is a great start! It was bothering me that it always feels like trial-and-error. It helped me to get to think it through and write a mini-tutorial to see it forwards and backwards. (Great suggestion Jennifer!) There is a method to it and some trial-and-error involved. As you know, it gets more complicated, but I'm glad you are seeing good results already!