Well I know that you're not going to be there when I'm doing the exam.

It's not like I'm the cleverest guy on Earth.

I am trying to learn.

You should stop putting my self confidence down and let me learn things that I want to learn.

Atleast I'm persevering.

All I'm asking for is a little help and if you can't steer me in the right direction then that's up to you but please don't knock me down.

You may think it's easy but in reality all the people don't think like you.

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Reply 46

TenOfThem

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Original post by zed963

Well I know that you're not going to be there when I'm doing the exam.

It's not like I'm the cleverest guy on Earth.

I am trying to learn.

You should stop putting my self confidence down and let me learn things that I want to learn.

Atleast I'm persevering.

All I'm asking for is a little help and if you can't steer me in the right direction then that's up to you but please don't knock me down.

I am not knocking you ... I am explaining why MrM said "surely you can divide by 2"

But ... sure if my help is unsupportive I will move on

Original post by zed963

Well I know that you're not going to be there when I'm doing the exam.

It's not like I'm the cleverest guy on Earth.

I am trying to learn.

You should stop putting my self confidence down and let me learn things that I want to learn.

Atleast I'm persevering.

All I'm asking for is a little help and if you can't steer me in the right direction then that's up to you but please don't knock me down.

I think we have been more than patient but the line I just complained about included

2 \times 18 = 32

Reply 48

zed963

OP

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Original post by steve2005

These two expressions are not equivalent.

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So what should it be

Reply 49

TenOfThem

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Original post by zed963

You may think it's easy but in reality all the people don't think like you.

TBH I think this is a bit offensive

however ... as I said ... I will leave you to the help of others

Reply 50

zed963

OP

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Original post by Mr M

I think we have been more than patient but the line I just complained about included

2 \times 18 = 32

So do you just want me to divide the whole expression so that it becomes

91x^2+118x+18

or

2(91x^2+118x+18)

Reply 51

steve2005

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Original post by zed963

So what should it be

The effect of the negative 18 outside the bracket is to multiply each term inside the bracket by 18 and CHANGE the SIGNS.

Original post by zed963

So do you just want me to divide the whole expression so that it becomes

91x^2+118x+18

or

2(91x^2+118x+18)

So you are perfectly happy that

2 \times 18 = 32

then?

Reply 53

zed963

OP

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Original post by TenOfThem

TBH I think this is a bit offensive

however ... as I said ... I will leave you to the help of others

Sorry if you find it offensive, my point is that not everyone is good at everything and I'm kind of getting frustrated because I've been on this question for about an hour it's kind of p******* me of. That's why I resulted in such a response.

Original post by steve2005

The effect of the negative 18 outside the bracket is to multiply each term inside the bracket by 18 and CHANGE the SIGNS.

This is difficult enough without going back about five steps steve. I will leave you to it.

Reply 55

zed963

OP

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Original post by Mr M

So you are perfectly happy that

2 \times 18 = 32

then?

Yess so after I've divided the expression by 2 what do I do

Original post by zed963

Yess so after I've divided the expression by 2 what do I do

Learn your multiplication tables?

Reply 57

steve2005

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Original post by zed963

So do you just want me to divide the whole expression so that it becomes

91x^2+118x+18

or

2(91x^2+118x+18)

First

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Second

Are you inventing quadratics to factorise ?

ONLY some quadratics factorise , you can't just write down any old quadratic and expect to factorise.