{"id":18054,"date":"2025-06-12T20:48:03","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T20:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/?p=18054"},"modified":"2025-06-12T20:48:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T20:48:05","slug":"factor-6x4-5x2-12x2-10-by-grouping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/factor-6x4-5x2-12x2-10-by-grouping\/","title":{"rendered":"Factor 6&#215;4 \u2013 5&#215;2 + 12&#215;2 \u2013 10 by grouping"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Factor 6&#215;4 \u2013 5&#215;2 + 12&#215;2 \u2013 10 by grouping. What is the resulting expression? (6x + 5)(x2 \u2013 2) (6x \u2013 5)(x2 + 2) (6&#215;2 + 5)(x2 \u2013 2) (6&#215;2 \u2013 5)(x2 + 2)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\"><strong>The correct answer and explanation is:<\/strong><\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are given the expression: 6&#215;4\u22125&#215;2+12&#215;2\u2212106x^4 &#8211; 5x^2 + 12x^2 &#8211; 10<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Step 1: Group the terms<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Group the terms into two binomials: (6&#215;4\u22125&#215;2)+(12&#215;2\u221210)(6x^4 &#8211; 5x^2) + (12x^2 &#8211; 10)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Step 2: Factor each group<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Factor out the greatest common factor (GCF) from each group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>From the first group 6&#215;4\u22125x26x^4 &#8211; 5x^2, factor out x2x^2:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>x2(6&#215;2\u22125)x^2(6x^2 &#8211; 5)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>From the second group 12&#215;2\u22121012x^2 &#8211; 10, factor out 2:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>2(6&#215;2\u22125)2(6x^2 &#8211; 5)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So now the expression becomes: x2(6&#215;2\u22125)+2(6&#215;2\u22125)x^2(6x^2 &#8211; 5) + 2(6x^2 &#8211; 5)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Step 3: Factor by grouping<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Now that both terms share a common factor of (6&#215;2\u22125)(6x^2 &#8211; 5), factor it out: (x2+2)(6&#215;2\u22125)(x^2 + 2)(6x^2 &#8211; 5)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the fully factored expression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Final Answer:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>(6&#215;2\u22125)(x2+2)(6x^2 &#8211; 5)(x^2 + 2)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or rearranged to match the answer choices: (6&#215;2\u22125)(x2+2)(6x^2 &#8211; 5)(x^2 + 2)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Correct Option:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>(6x\u00b2 \u2013 5)(x\u00b2 + 2)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Explanation (300 words):<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Factoring by grouping is a method used when an expression has four terms. The goal is to rearrange and group terms so that you can factor out a common binomial from both groups. In the expression 6&#215;4\u22125&#215;2+12&#215;2\u2212106x^4 &#8211; 5x^2 + 12x^2 &#8211; 10, start by grouping the terms in pairs: (6&#215;4\u22125&#215;2)+(12&#215;2\u221210)(6x^4 &#8211; 5x^2) + (12x^2 &#8211; 10)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From the first group, notice that both terms share a factor of x2x^2, so we factor it out: x2(6&#215;2\u22125)x^2(6x^2 &#8211; 5)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the second group, both terms share a factor of 2: 2(6&#215;2\u22125)2(6x^2 &#8211; 5)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now we have: x2(6&#215;2\u22125)+2(6&#215;2\u22125)x^2(6x^2 &#8211; 5) + 2(6x^2 &#8211; 5)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The binomial (6&#215;2\u22125)(6x^2 &#8211; 5) is common to both terms, so we factor it out: (6&#215;2\u22125)(x2+2)(6x^2 &#8211; 5)(x^2 + 2)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the factored form of the original expression. This method simplifies higher-order polynomials and is especially useful when direct factoring isn\u2019t obvious. The key is recognizing common patterns and carefully factoring out the GCF from each group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, the correct answer is <strong>(6x\u00b2 \u2013 5)(x\u00b2 + 2)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Factor 6&#215;4 \u2013 5&#215;2 + 12&#215;2 \u2013 10 by grouping. What is the resulting expression? (6x + 5)(x2 \u2013 2) (6x \u2013 5)(x2 + 2) (6&#215;2 + 5)(x2 \u2013 2) (6&#215;2 \u2013 5)(x2 + 2) The correct answer and explanation is: We are given the expression: 6&#215;4\u22125&#215;2+12&#215;2\u2212106x^4 &#8211; 5x^2 + 12x^2 &#8211; 10 Step 1: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quiz-questions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18055,"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18054\/revisions\/18055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}