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Expressions and Equations: Expanding and Factoring Expressions
Factoring Out the Greatest Common Factor
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Factoring Out the Greatest Common Factor
Introduction
Factoring is a way of rewriting an expression as a product of factors. One useful method is to identify and factor out the greatest common factor, or GCF, shar...
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Emma’s art club is making as many identical art kits as possible for the fair, using every pencil they have.
They have 10 boxes of colored pencils, each holding x pencils, plus 15 loose pencils.
Altogether, the pencils are written as the expression 10x + 15.
To make the largest number of identical kits possible, Emma needs the ...
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