Identifying Types of Factoring

What type of factoring would you use first?
9x² - 4

• Difference of 2 Squares

• Difference of 2 Cubes

• Sum of 2 Cubes

• GCF

What type of factoring would you use first?
4x³ - 24x

• Difference of 2 Squares

• Difference of 2 Cubes

• Sum of 2 Cubes

• GCF

What type of factoring would you use first?
8x³ - 1

• Difference of 2 Squares

• Difference of 2 Cubes

• Sum of 2 Cubes

• GCF

What type of factoring would you use first?
3x⁴ - 9x

• Difference of 2 Squares

• Difference of 2 Cubes

• Sum of 2 Cubes

• GCF

Match each polynomial with the correct label for factoring.

• GCF Only

• Difference of

  Two Cubes

• Difference of

  Two Squares

• Sum of Two Squares

• Sum of

  Two Cubes

What type of factoring would you use first?
x³ + 27

• Difference of 2 Squares

• Difference of 2 Cubes

• Sum of 2 Cubes

• GCF

What type of factoring would you use first?

x² - 7x - 8

• GCF

• Grouping (split)

• Square roots

• (x+ )(x- )

What type of factoring would you use first?
x³ - 1000x

• Difference of 2 Squares

• Difference of 2 Cubes

• Sum of 2 Cubes

• GCF

What type of factoring would you use first?
x³ - 1

• Difference of 2 Squares

• Difference of 2 Cubes

• Sum of 2 Cubes

• GCF