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Sign Rules for Trinomial Factoring

A project manager is using the expression $14x^2 - 47x - 7toestimatetheareaofadevelopmentsite.Whenfactoringthistrinomialusingthetrialanderrormethod,themanageridentifiesthattheconstanttermisto estimate the area of a development site. When factoring this trinomial using the trial and error method, the manager identifies that the constant term is-7.Basedontherulesforfactoringtrinomialswithanegativelastterm,whatmustbetrueaboutthesignsofthetwofactorsof. Based on the rules for factoring trinomials with a negative last term, what must be true about the signs of the two factors of -7$ used in the trial binomials?

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