SOLUTION: please help it says factor by grouping 3x + 3y + ax + ay

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Question 262780: please help
it says factor by grouping
3x + 3y + ax + ay

Answer by drk(1908)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Here is the original problem:

step 1 - put (_) around the first and second pair of terms to get

step 2 - find the GCF of both sets of (_) and we get

step 3 - find the GCF of the entire expression as

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