FACTOR BY GROUPING
In the first two terms only,
, we can factor out
and get
.
In the last two terms only,
, we can factor out
and get
. So we have this:
Now we can take out the parentheses as the common factor
leaving the
and the
,
so the final factored form is:
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FACTOR BY FINDING THE GREATEST COMMON FACTOR:
We can factor
out of all the terms:
That's as far as we can go, because there is no way
to factor what is inside the parentheses by grouping:
Edwin