Question

Find the great common factor of the following monomials:

34a^2b 24a^5b^2

Answer 1

Can you factor the coefficients?

Answer 2

Yes

Answer 3

What do you get?

Answer 4

GCF I got was 2

Answer 5

Great! And how about the common variables?

Answer 6

ab are common. That's the part that's confusing me. I don't know what to do with the exponents or varibles

Answer 7

Ok, so, a^2 is a*a

Answer 8

and a^5 is a*a*a*a*a

Answer 9

a^2 is common?

Answer 10

Right, great!

Answer 11

So its 2a^2b ?

Answer 12

Yep, awesome!