How do you factor 6x2+6x3?

1 Answer
May 3, 2016

6x2(x1)

Explanation:

First, you should try to 'pull out of the parentheses' as much as you can: in this case it's 6x2. So we divide each monomial by 6x2:
6x2+6x3=6x2(1+x),
We prefer the factors to be of the form (xsomething) so here we can just rearrange the last factor to obtain 6x2(x1).