You can put this solution on YOUR website! Given:
(1)
To factor any expression look for factors that are the same in all or two of the terms in the expression. Then factor them out and look for more common factors. And hope you get lucky.
Look at the first two term of (1). What is a common factor?. I see 2x. Let's see what that does to (1), we get
(2)
Note the remaining expression has a common factor of (2x - 3y), so let's factor it out to get
(3) or
(4)
I don't see any common factors in (4), so it is your answer to (1). You can FOIL (4) to get (1),
(5)
Given:
(6)
The only common factor that I can see in (5) is 2, so we get
(7) as the factored answer.
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