4K⁴- 14K³ - 30K² If you factor out the GCF of 2K², what's left won't go up to the 4th power, but only to the 2nd power. 2K²(2K² - 7K - 15) Then the trinomial in parentheses factors as this: 2K²(2K + 3)(K - 5) Always look for a greatest common factor first. Edwin