Positive factors will create a positive product.
Negative factors will create a positive product.
A negative and a positive factor will create a negative product.
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2 cannot be a factor of an odd number, 2 must be a factor of an even number.
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-- If the last term of the trinomial ... the one that's just a number with no 'x' ... is positive, then both factors have the same sign as the middle term of the trinomial. -- If the last term is negative, then the factors have different signs. If this was never pointed out in class, well, it should have been.
Not necessarily. They could both be positive.
The two numbers that are multiplied together are called factors. In a multiplication equation, the factors are the numbers being multiplied to find the product. For example, in the equation 5 x 4 = 20, the factors are 5 and 4.