SOLUTION: 1. How do you factor out x^3? 2. How do you factor out (sqrt x+5)-3/x-4? PLEASE HELP!!!!!!

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Question 39446: 1. How do you factor out x^3?
2. How do you factor out (sqrt x+5)-3/x-4?

PLEASE HELP!!!!!!
Answer by longjonsilver(2297) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
factor x^3... well, you could write it as x*x^2 perhaps?

As for the sexond example, i can see nothing common to all three terms, so i would say that you cannot factorise it.

Jon