SOLUTION: 9x+18 please help me tanx!! alicia

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Question 239758: 9x+18
please help me tanx!! alicia

Answer by unlockmath(1122) About Me  (Show Source):
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Hi Alicia,
The way to look at this is what can you pull out from each that is similar?
Looks like 9 is the only thing so it would look like this:
9(x+2)
You can check this out by multiplying both (x + 2) by 9 and see if it is back to the original expression we started with. Does it work?
RJ Toftness
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