00:01
For problems like this, you do want to see if there's a greatest common factor.
00:04
So we're looking at 12 y squared plus 8y z minus 15 z squared, except there's no greatest common factor.
00:18
So that's where we're going to go to the ac method, where we multiply 12 times negative 15.
00:24
I don't know if you need a calculator for this, but 12 times negative 15 is negative 180, which i really like that that's a number that's divisible by 10 because then i'm thinking about 10 and 18.
00:42
Well, to make it a negative, one of these numbers needs to be negative, and that works out perfectly for me.
00:47
So what you want to do next is rewrite the problem and rewrite this 8 yz as, let's see, i'm going to write negative 10 yz first and then a plus 18 yz.
01:02
I just like to have the positive number there...