Factorise $x^2+bx+c$ into 2 distinct linear factors and then find $\displaystyle \int \frac{a}{x^2+bx+c }\;dx$ using partial fractions or otherwise.

Semi-worked example of inverting a 3x3 matrix using cofactor, adjoint and determinant.

Customised for the Numbas demo exam

Factorise $x^2+cx+d$ into 2 distinct linear factors and then find $\displaystyle \int \frac{ax+b}{x^2+cx+d}\;dx,\;a \neq 0$ using partial fractions or otherwise.

Video in Show steps.

Reducing fractions to their lowest form by cancelling common factors in the numerator and denominator. There are 4 questions. 

Algebraic manipulation/simplification.

Simplify $\displaystyle \frac{ax^4+bx^2+c}{a_1x^4+b_1x^2+c_1}$ by cancelling a a common degree 2 factor.

Express $\displaystyle \frac{a}{x + b} +\frac{cx+d}{(x + b)^2}$ as an algebraic single fraction.

Factorise $\displaystyle{ax ^ 2 + bx + c}$ into linear factors. 

The student is asked to factorise a quadratic $x^2 + ax + b$. A custom marking script uses pattern matching to ensure that the student's answer is of the form $(x+a)(x+b)$, $(x+a)^2$, or $x(x+a)$.

To find the script, look in the Scripts tab of part a.

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Some quadratics are to be solved by factorising

Some quadratics are to be solved by factorising

SPSS fat absorption question. Student downloads one of several SPSS files and carries out some analysis in SPSS, before returning to enter the answers. The analysis is a one-way analysis of variance. If there is a difference in the levels of the factor then a post hoc test (Tukey's honestly significant difference) is used to determine which pairs of variables are significantly different. 

Quadratic factorisation that does not rely upon pattern matching.

Factorise three quadratic equations of the form $x^2+bx+c$.

The first has two negative roots, the second has one negative and one positive, and the third is the difference of two squares.

Quadratic factorisation that does not rely upon pattern matching.

A function which renders the factorisation of a number in LaTeX.

Show a list of the factors of a number.

Works by testing each number up to $n$ for divisibility by $n$, so won't do well with really big numbers. Certainly fast enough for numbers up to 4 or 5 digits.

A mathematical expression part whose answer is the product of two matrices, $X \times Y$.

By setting the "variable value generator" option for $X$ and $Y$ to produce random matrices, we can ensure that the order of the factors in the student's answer matters: $X \times Y \neq Y \times X$.

Some quadratics are to be solved by factorising

Find the stationary points of the function: $f(x,y)=a x ^ 3 + b x ^ 2 y + c y ^ 2 x + dy$ by choosing from a list of points.

Inputting the values given into the partial derivatives to see if 0 is obtained is tedious! Could ask for the factorisation of equation 1 as the solution uses this. However there is a problem in asking for the input of the stationary points - order of input and also giving that there is two stationary points.

Statistics and probability. A question on two factor ANOVA.

Two factor ANOVA example

Pick four numbers from $1900\dots 2015$ and ask the student to factorise them.

Custom marking scripts make sure the student has entered a complete factorisation.

Factorising 5 to 7 digit numbers into a product of prime powers.

Uses the marking algorithms from question 1 of this CBA

Factorise $x^2+bx+c$ into 2 distinct linear factors and then find $\displaystyle \int \frac{a}{x^2+bx+c }\;dx$ using partial fractions or otherwise.