# Products and factors

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## Introduction

In this chapter you will learn how to work with algebraic expressions. You will recap some of the work on factorisation and multiplying out expressions that you learnt in earlier grades. This work will then be extended upon for Grade 10.

## Recap of earlier work

The following should be familiar. Examples are given as reminders.

## Parts of an expression

Mathematical expressions are just like sentences and their parts have special names. You should be familiar with the following names used to describe the parts of a mathematical expression.

$\begin{array}{c}\hfill a·{x}^{k}+b·x+{c}^{m}=0\\ \hfill d·{y}^{p}+e·y+f\le 0\end{array}$
 Name Examples (separated by commas) term $a·{x}^{k}$ , $b·x$ , ${c}^{m}$ , $d·{y}^{p}$ , $e·y$ , $f$ expression $a·{x}^{k}+b·x+{c}^{m}$ , $d·{y}^{p}+e·y+f$ coefficient $a$ , $b$ , $d$ , $e$ exponent (or index) $k$ , $p$ base $x$ , $y$ , $c$ constant $a$ , $b$ , $c$ , $d$ , $e$ , $f$ variable $x$ , $y$ equation $a·{x}^{k}+b·x+{c}^{m}=0$ inequality $d·{y}^{p}+e·y+f\le 0$ binomial expression with two terms trinomial expression with three terms

## Product of two binomials

A binomial is a mathematical expression with two terms, e.g. $\left(ax+b\right)$ and $\left(cx+d\right)$ . If these two binomials are multiplied, the following is the result:

$\begin{array}{ccc}\hfill \left(a·x+b\right)\left(c·x+d\right)& =& \left(ax\right)\left(c·x+d\right)+b\left(c·x+d\right)\hfill \\ & =& \left(ax\right)\left(cx\right)+\left(ax\right)d+b\left(cx\right)+b·d\hfill \\ & =& a{x}^{2}+x\left(ad+bc\right)+bd\hfill \end{array}$

Find the product of $\left(3x-2\right)\left(5x+8\right)$

1. $\begin{array}{ccc}\hfill \left(3x-2\right)\left(5x+8\right)& =& \left(3x\right)\left(5x\right)+\left(3x\right)\left(8\right)+\left(-2\right)\left(5x\right)+\left(-2\right)\left(8\right)\hfill \\ & =& 15{x}^{2}+24x-10x-16\hfill \\ & =& 15{x}^{2}+14x-16\hfill \end{array}$

The product of two identical binomials is known as the square of the binomial and is written as:

${\left(ax+b\right)}^{2}={a}^{2}{x}^{2}+2abx+{b}^{2}$

If the two terms are $ax+b$ and $ax-b$ then their product is:

$\left(ax+b\right)\left(ax-b\right)={a}^{2}{x}^{2}-{b}^{2}$

This is known as the difference of two squares .

## Factorisation

Factorisation is the opposite of expanding brackets. For example expanding brackets would require $2\left(x+1\right)$ to be written as $2x+2$ . Factorisation would be to start with $2x+2$ and to end up with $2\left(x+1\right)$ . In previous grades, you factorised based on common factors and on difference of squares.

## Common factors

Factorising based on common factors relies on there being common factors between your terms. For example, $2x-6{x}^{2}$ can be factorised as follows:

$2x-6{x}^{2}=2x\left(1-3x\right)$

## Investigation : common factors

Find the highest common factors of the following pairs of terms:

 (a) $6y;18x$ (b) $12mn;8n$ (c) $3st;4su$ (d) $18kl;9kp$ (e) $abc;ac$ (f) $2xy;4xyz$ (g) $3uv;6u$ (h) $9xy;15xz$ (i) $24xyz;16yz$ (j) $3m;45n$

## Difference of two squares

We have seen that:

$\left(ax+b\right)\left(ax-b\right)={a}^{2}{x}^{2}-{b}^{2}$

Since [link] is an equation, both sides are always equal. This means that an expression of the form:

${a}^{2}{x}^{2}-{b}^{2}$

can be factorised to

$\left(ax+b\right)\left(ax-b\right)$

Therefore,

${a}^{2}{x}^{2}-{b}^{2}=\left(ax+b\right)\left(ax-b\right)$

For example, ${x}^{2}-16$ can be written as $\left({x}^{2}-{4}^{2}\right)$ which is a difference of two squares. Therefore, the factors of ${x}^{2}-16$ are $\left(x-4\right)$ and $\left(x+4\right)$ .

Factorise completely: ${b}^{2}{y}^{5}-3ab{y}^{3}$

1. $\begin{array}{ccc}\hfill {b}^{2}{y}^{5}-3ab{y}^{3}& =& b{y}^{3}\left(b{y}^{2}-3a\right)\hfill \end{array}$

Factorise completely: $3a\left(a-4\right)-7\left(a-4\right)$

1. $\left(a-4\right)$ is the common factor
$\begin{array}{ccc}\hfill 3a\left(a-4\right)-7\left(a-4\right)& =& \left(a-4\right)\left(3a-7\right)\hfill \end{array}$

Factorise $5\left(a-2\right)-b\left(2-a\right)$

1. $\begin{array}{ccc}\hfill 5\left(a-2\right)-b\left(2-a\right)& =& 5\left(a-2\right)-\left[-b\left(a-2\right)\right]\hfill \\ & =& 5\left(a-2\right)+b\left(a-2\right)\hfill \\ & =& \left(a-2\right)\left(5+b\right)\hfill \end{array}$

## Recap

1. Find the products of:
 (a) $2y\left(y+4\right)$ (b) $\left(y+5\right)\left(y+2\right)$ (c) $\left(y+2\right)\left(2y+1\right)$ (d) $\left(y+8\right)\left(y+4\right)$ (e) $\left(2y+9\right)\left(3y+1\right)$ (f) $\left(3y-2\right)\left(y+6\right)$

2. Factorise:
1. $2l+2w$
2. $12x+32y$
3. $6{x}^{2}+2x+10{x}^{3}$
4. $2x{y}^{2}+x{y}^{2}z+3xy$
5. $-2a{b}^{2}-4{a}^{2}b$

3. Factorise completely:
 (a) $7a+4$ (b) $20a-10$ (c) $18ab-3bc$ (d) $12kj+18kq$ (e) $16{k}^{2}-4k$ (f) $3{a}^{2}+6a-18$ (g) $-6a-24$ (h) $-2ab-8a$ (i) $24kj-16{k}^{2}j$ (j) $-{a}^{2}b-{b}^{2}a$ (k) $12{k}^{2}j+24{k}^{2}{j}^{2}$ (l) $72{b}^{2}q-18{b}^{3}{q}^{2}$ (m) $4\left(y-3\right)+k\left(3-y\right)$ (n) $a\left(a-1\right)-5\left(a-1\right)$ (o) $bm\left(b+4\right)-6m\left(b+4\right)$ (p) ${a}^{2}\left(a+7\right)+a\left(a+7\right)$ (q) $3b\left(b-4\right)-7\left(4-b\right)$ (r) ${a}^{2}{b}^{2}{c}^{2}-1$

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