SOLUTION: What happens if you factor out 3x from 6x to the power of two minus 12x?Describe your answer.

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Question 983068: What happens if you factor out 3x from 6x to the power of two minus 12x?Describe your answer.

Answer by MathLover1(20850)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

if you factor out , which is a factor common to every term, from you will get which is simplified form of

What you are doing here is using the distributive law in reverse; you are sort of un-distributing the factor.
Recall that the distributive law says:

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