SOLUTION: Any assistance you could offer would be great. I am supposed to factor out the greatest common factor and simplify factors if possible. I think the greatest common factor is 5-x^

Question 27476: Any assistance you could offer would be great. I am supposed to factor out the greatest common factor and simplify factors if possible. I think the greatest common factor is 5-x^2, but am not not sure where to go from there.
3(5-x)^4+2(5-x)^3-(5-x)^2
Thank you!

Answer by longjonsilver(2297) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
you are correct... lets look at it written out fully:

means
3(5-x)(5-x)(5-x)(5-x) + 2(5-x)(5-x)(5-x) - (5-x)(5-x)

so, you can see that (5-x)(5-x) is common to all 3 terms. Taking that out, leaves:
(5-x)(5-x)[ 3(5-x)(5-x) + 2(5-x) - 1]

so, writing this in neater format is

Hope this helps.

jon.

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