Factoting Polynomilas

using Greatest Common

Monomial Factors
Prepared by:
Jackie Lou F. Salvador
BSED 4A - Mathematics Major
Activity 1: Message from the King
What did you discover
between the
relationship of products
and its factors?
• Factoring - process of finding the factors of an
expression, which is the reverse of multiplication.
• Prime Number - a number greater than 1 which has
only two positive factors: 1 and itself.
• Polynomial -
Types of Factoring
• Factoring the Greatest Common Monomial Factors
• Difference of two squares
• Sum and difference of two cubes
• Oerfwcy square trinomials
Activity 2: Finding Common
Description: Your task in this activitu is to identify
common things that are present in the three
pictures.
Follow up questions:
1. What are the things common to these pictures?
2. Are there things that make them diffenece?
3. Can you spot things that are found in one picture
but not on the other two?
4. What are the things common to two pictures but
are not found on the other two?
Factor: 12x3y5 - 20x6y2z
• STEPS:
1. Find the GCF of thr numerical coefficient.
2. Find the variable with the least exponent that
appeats in each term of the polynomial.
3. The product of the greatest common factor in (1) and
(2) is the GCF in the polynomial.
4. To comoletely factor the given polynomial, divide the
polynomial by its GCF, the resulting quotient is the
other factor.