Question

How do you use the distributive property to factor `6ab+12ab^2+18b`?

Answer 1

`6b(a+2ab+3)`

Explanation:

Multiplication is distributive over addition. So, here we can extact the common factors from the expression as follows:

Expression `=6ab+12ab^2+18b`

`6` is a common factor `->` Expression `=6(ab+2ab^2+3b)`

`b` is a common factor `->` Expression `=6b(a+2ab+3)`