Bill keeps a colony of honeybees on his property. He has created an expression to represent the number of honeybees that are in the colony t years after he decided to create the colony.

The expression Bill created is -164 + 160t2 – 144.

After deciding to create the colony, it took a fair amount o

C. Set the term being squared from part b equal to x and rewrite the expression in terms of x.

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d. Factor the resulting expression inside the bracket.

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e. Now that you have factored the expression, replace x with the term you initially substituted

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f. When did Bill first get his honeybees and when did he lose them?

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g. Use the same idea you used above to factor the expression 4x4 - 25/6.

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