Question

What is the Greatest Common Factor of x^4 and x^3?

Answer 1

what does the first term look like after you factor out one \(x\)

Answer 2

0?

Answer 3

\[x^4=(x)(x^3)\]

Answer 4

x^4 would be the answer

Answer 5

right?

Answer 6

nope

Answer 7

i have factored out one \(x\),
\(x\) and \(x^3\) are factors of \(x^4\)

Answer 8

i could have done \(x^4=(x)(x)(x)(x)=xxxx\)

Answer 9

wait so what am i supposed to do next ?

Answer 10

any number can be factorized into itself and one \(x=(1)(x)\)

Answer 11

so its x

Answer 12

\(x^3=(1)(x^3)\)

so we see that \(x^3\) is a factor of boh terms