Question

Find greatest common monomial factor of the terms of the polynomial.

8x3y2 – 12x2y3 + 20x2y2



A.
4xy


B.
8x2y2


C.
4x2y2


D.
16xy

Answer 1

@iambatman

Answer 2

@jtryon

Answer 3

\[\large 8x^3y^2-12x^2y^3+20x^2y^2\]

Answer 4

Factor out the polynomials and find the GCF of the three.

Answer 5

Like that?

Answer 6

Take it away @jtryon :)!

Answer 7

OK, so we break each one of the polynomials up
8x^3y^2 = 2 * 2 * 2 * x * x * x * y * y

Answer 8

can you do the other two?

Answer 9

no i dont understand it @jtryon

Answer 10

You have the polynomial x^3y^2 and what you want to do is factor it out and then once you factor all of them, you take the greatest common factor and that is your answer

Answer 11

so when you are done factoring, your answer should be 4x^2y^2 :)