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x(1-3x) + 3x-1

How do you completely factorise this??

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 Sep 18, 2014

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x(1-3x) + 3x-1

=-x(3x-1) +(3x-1)

=(3x-1)-x(3x-1)

=(3x-1)(1-x)

 Sep 18, 2014
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Write it as x(1-3x) - (1-3x) and you can see that (1 - 3x) can be extracted, so it factorises as (1-3x)(x-1)

 Sep 18, 2014
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x(1-3x) + 3x-1

=-x(3x-1) +(3x-1)

=(3x-1)-x(3x-1)

=(3x-1)(1-x)

heureka Sep 18, 2014

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