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A carpenter is designing a custom wooden deck where the surface area is represented by the expression x2+3x+5x^2 + 3x + 5. After checking all integer factor pairs of the constant 5, the carpenter finds that no pair adds up to the middle coefficient of 3, meaning the expression cannot be factored into two binomials with integer coefficients. Which of the following terms describes this type of trinomial?

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