Don’t make THIS mistake while factoring trinomials #shorts

Added: 2026-06-04

[00:00:00]Don't make this mistake while factoring trinomials. Instead of just diving into a factoring problem, stop and check for a common factor first. Because you see, this trinomial becomes much quicker and simpler to factor once you remove a common factor of four from each term.

[00:00:13]Since we now have an A value of one, we just need to find two numbers that add to get our new B while also multiplying to get our new C. After some thinking, we'll see that 12 and 1 are those two numbers, which we then place after an X including the sign, and we are fully factored.