General Strategy for Factoring Polynomials · Exercise 34
Pumpkin drop A fall tradition at the University of California San Diego is the Pumpkin Drop, where a pumpkin is dropped from the eleventh story of Tioga Hall.
ⓐ The binomial gives the height of the pumpkin t seconds after it is dropped. Factor the greatest common factor from this binomial.
ⓑ If the pumpkin is thrown down with initial velocity 32 feet per second, its height after seconds is given by the trinomial . Completely factor this trinomial.
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OpenStax, Elementary Algebra 2e · §7.5 General Strategy for Factoring Polynomials · Exercise 34
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