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Tyler Wallace's "Beginning and Intermediate Algebra: Section 6.3: Factoring - Trinomials Where a = 1"
Read this section. Pay special attention to page 221.
This method of factoring (the ac method) really is the workhorse of factoring trinomials: We need two numbers whose product is the constant term and whose sum is the x coefficient.