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Factorise the following quadratics.

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See 3.3 and 3.5 for examples and background. With practice, you shoud learn many of the common patterns that will help speed things up.

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Note tha there might be more than one way to factorise some quadratics.

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Several quadratics are given and students are asked to factorise them.

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