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Okay Mash buffers Another one for you What is the

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factored form of the quadratic expression X squared minus two

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Acts plus 1 All right We know there's a quadratic

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right We've got the squared thingy there into the first

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power there and then they just number thing What we

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factor a quadratic expression by thinking of factors of the

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constant term that add up to the coefficient of the

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ex term Well in this case the constant term is

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one indicated in bold here that thing right there and

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the coefficient of the ex term is negative to this

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thing So we're looking for two factors of one that

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add to negative too Well the answer choices only gives

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singers and the possible factors have won So it's safe

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to say we have a living A number of possibilities

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Well there are only two pairs of factors of positive

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One that's one and one and negative one and negative

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one Well the southern negative one and everyone sang of

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two so we could factor the given expression as x

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minus one times x minus one or cleverly known as

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x minus one squared So that's it Quadratic work They

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rush members

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