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 Dear Jesus,
Here we are back at school, not only ready to learn
new subjects but to grow in love for you.
Open our eyes to see, our ears to listen and our hearts
and mind to love and understand as we learn from
our teachers.

Help us to be the best student and person

we can be, reaching out to others and
giving good example to all we meet. May we
receive Your blessing now and throughout
this school year. Amen.
What is common in the pictures?
Good for your health

Color is ORANGE.
What can you say about the pictures?

They are all crayons

What is common with this numbers?

2 4 6
They are all even numbers
and divisible by 2.
 Factors of 2, 4, and 6.

2 1, 2
Has a factor
4 1, 2, 4 of 2.
6 1, 2, 3, 6
How about on this expression?

x 2x 3x 4x
They all have the same “VARIABLE x”
 We can also find
Commonalities
in Algebra.

Greatest
Common
Factor
We will factor Polynomials
with common monomial factor let
us have first our review.

One way to find the

Greatest Common Factor
of two or more numbers is
Prime Factorization.
What is the Greatest Common Factor of

8 =2•2•2 Do Next
same
youlet’s
see us
identify
numbers
the
the
12 = 2 • 2 • 3 common
in each set
prime
factors.
of

GCF 2•2 = 4
 How about the
Greatest Common Factor
of algebraic expressions where there are
variables and exponents since a variable
represents an unknown value we cannot
use prime factorization to find their GCF?
Find the GCF of the following?

n³ n⁵ n⁶ n⁹
Greatest Common Factor
nᵏ = n • n • … n • n

k times
n³ = n•n•n
n⁵ = n•n•n•n•n
n⁶ = n•n•n•n•n•n
n⁹ = n • n • n • n • n • n • n • n • n
GCF n•n•n = n³
 The word Polynomials
Comes from Latin-Greek words

POLY - meaning “many”

NOMEN - which means
“name or term”.
 A Polynomials
is an algebraic expression
that shows a sum of difference
of two or more terms containing
whole number exponents on the
VARIABLE.
A VARIABLE is a symbol which
represents an UNKNOWN VALUE.

A CONSTANT is a symbol
or number with FIXED VALUE.
 This is a polynomial since there are no
variables that have negative exponents.
Numerical
Coefficient Exponent

4x² - 2
Constant
Literal Coefficient Term
4x³ = 2•2 x•x•x
8x² = 2•2•2 x•x
GCF 2•2 • x•x = 4x²
Example:

15y⁶ = 3•5 y•y•y•y•y •y

9z = 3•3 z
GCF 3 =3
God Bless Everyone !
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