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First, we look for the greatest common factor of all three terms --- the "largest" expression that divides all three. In this case, the greatest common factor appears to be 3x, so we factor it out:
We can only factor the remaining part, , in the usual sense if has rational roots, but the roots of are (according to the quadratic formula):
Since the roots are complex numbers, we wouldn't usually factor this expression any further.
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