How do you factor the trinomial $c^6 + c^5 - 156c^4$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2018-04-09T00:19:12

One way is to take out a common factor of $c^4$ , to yield:

$(c^4)(c^2+c-156)$

Now the second part is a quadratic, and we know how to factorise those. We end up with:

$(c^4)(c+13)(c-12)$

How do you factor the trinomial c^6 + c^5 - 156c^4c^6 + c^5 - 156c^4?