SOLUTION: This problem is from the textbook Hutchison Beginning Algebra. It's an online book, so I do not have the ISBN number I need help factoring the following please: a^2(b - c) -

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Question 99368: This problem is from the textbook Hutchison Beginning Algebra. It's an online book, so I do not have the ISBN number
I need help factoring the following please:
a^2(b - c) - 16b^2(b - c)
Thank you!

Answer by edjones(8007)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
a^2(b - c) - 16b^2(b - c)
you are not factoring you are expanding, the opposite of factoring.
a^2b-a^2c-16b^2b+16^2c
Ed

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