In factoring out the greatest common factor, we must first find the greatest common factor. So what we’re going to do is we’re going to write down each term of this expression. So we have 12x cubed; ...
A prime factor is a natural number, other than 1, whose only factors are 1 and itself. The first few prime numbers are actually 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, and so on. Now we can also use what’s called prime ...