Showing posts with label greatest common factor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label greatest common factor. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Factoring binomials using the greatest common factor

One way to factor binomials is by searching for the greatest common factor.

Consider

(5x * 25)

In this case the greatest common factor is 5 and the phrase can be written as

5(x*5)