Question

Factor by factoring out the greatest common factor (GCF).

6x^7y^5+48x^5y^4+54xy

Answer 1

what is the GCF?

Answer 2

6

Answer 3

thing is idk about the exponents

Answer 4

there should be and x and a y as well.

Answer 5

like 6x to the what power is where I get mixed up

Answer 6

it would be 6xy, look at the lowest exponent(which in this case is just xy). nothing bigger than itself can be a factor of it, does that make sense?

Answer 7

yes, so everytime I just choose the lowest exponent then divide

Answer 8

yupp! so it would be 6xy as your GCF.

Answer 9

okay so in this case its both xy since they both don't have an exponent, I see

Answer 10

I got \[6xy(x ^{6}y ^{4}+8x ^{4}y ^{3}+9)\] as my answer