This document provides instructions for factoring quadratic trinomials where the leading term is equal to 1. It defines a quadratic trinomial as an expression in the form of ax^2 + bx + c, where b and c are constants and a ≠ 0. It consists of three terms. The document then presents two examples of factoring trinomials where a = 1 by listing all pairs of numbers with a product equal to c and a sum equal to b, and writing the factors. It concludes by emphasizing that to factor where a = 1, get the factors of the last term where the sum is the middle term coefficient.