SOLUTION: please solve by factoring, please show me the steps, i'm having a hard time 15s^2-3s^4 thank you in advance for your help

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Question 134478: please solve by factoring, please show me the steps, i'm having a hard time
15s^2-3s^4
thank you in advance for your help

Answer by ptaylor(2048) About Me  (Show Source):
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please solve by factoring, please show me the steps, i'm having a hard time
15s^2-3s^4
thank you in advance for your help
We want to factor the following expression
15s%5E2-3s%5E4
First, by inspection, we see that we can factor out a3s%5E2
3s%5E2%285-s%5E2%29
I don't see how we can factor the expression any further, do you?
Hope this helps----ptaylor