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) About Me  (Show Source):
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if you factor out 3x, which is a factor common to every term, from 6x%5E2-12x you will get 3x%28x-4%29 which is simplified form of 6x%5E2-12x

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:
a%28b+%2B+c%29+=+ab+%2B+ac