SCOUT.
scout cocked her head to the side , not understanding how he got factoring and finding the mean confused. she realized this is how otter probably felt when she thought the underground railroad was an actual railroad. with a brief smile , she shook her head. ‘ nope. factoring is when you find two numbers that both multiply to make c and add to make b in the quadratic equation. ’ she spoke slowly , writing this down on the sheet of paper. ‘ so if c is six and b is five , the numbers three and two work. ’
he stared at the tip of his pencil as she spoke, compeltely zoning out on the words coming out of her mouth ! “ okay --- pause, ” he spoke, point the pencil in her direction. “ what are the odds that i can just like, take my ged test and like --- WING IT ? but still do well ! ” he gave a hopeful smile, beginning to doodle small circles at the top of his empty sheet of notebook paper.












