From Dante: Which number is greater: 888....88 X 333...33 or 444.......44 x 666........67 (each of the numbers has 1989 digits)? Answered by Claude Tardif.
I didn't really understand the purpose of the teacher's steps, but was able to get my daughter to find factors of 6 and then add them together to find which resulted in the sum of 5.
Unfortunately, this problem-solving technique did not help us to solve for the more complex problems as follows:
From Nicole: Can 4x2 + 19x + 12 be factored? i have tried but i cannot figure it out. Is there a way to find out if it cannot be factored before i try to work out the problem? Answered by Penny Nom.
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