Exercise 1.

Which of the following polynomial can be factored by the guessing method? Give the factorization in these cases!

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Answer.

I can "factor by guessing" all but the third one:

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  My guesses for integers with product -4 are: 1 and -4; -1 and 4; and 2 and -2. None of them have the required sum -5.
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