Question: what does it mean to factor a quadratic equation?
Answer: A Quadratic Equation in Standard Form. (a, b, and c can have any value, except that a can't be 0.) To "Factor" (or "Factorise" in the UK) a Quadratic is to: find what to multiply to get the Quadratic. It is called "Factoring" because we find the factors (a factor is something we multiply by)