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Standard Operating Procedure for Trial and Error Factoring

Imagine you are a Lead Peer Mentor at a college academic success center. You have been tasked with writing a section of a training manual that explains the 'Trial and Error' method for factoring trinomials of the form ax2+bx+cax^2 + bx + c where the leading coefficient is not 1.

Describe the systematic, step-by-step procedure that a student should follow to identify the correct binomial factors and explain the specific calculation used to verify that a trial combination is the correct one.

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