A scaled difference of cubes

A scaled difference of cubes

4 marks
TGM Original
Factorise 8x3-27 as fully as possible over the real numbers. Justify why your quadratic factor cannot be factored into real linear factors.

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Answer:\((2x-3)(4x^2+6x+9)\); discriminant \(-108<0\).

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