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document.write( "You provided no instructions but I assume that you need to factor.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Take out the greatest common factor from each term.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Then divide each term by the greatest common factor.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "The GCF = 5m\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "So, we now divide 5m + 40mb^3 by 5m INDIVIDUALLY.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "5m divided by 5m = 1\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "40mb^3 divided by 5m = 8b^3\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "We now put each answer together and we're done.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Final answer: (1 + 8b^3) </SPAN>\n" );
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