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OpenStudy (hellokitty17):

Factor completely 5x2 + 20x. Prime 5(x2 + 4x) x(5x + 20) 5x(x + 4)

oregonduck (oregonduck):

d

OpenStudy (hellokitty17):

thanks!

oregonduck (oregonduck):

:)

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Prime factor means factoring until you get prime numbers.

oregonduck (oregonduck):

yeah which comes out to 5x(x + 4) so the answer is d

OpenStudy (anonymous):

You may find 4 to be counterintuitive, but since 5 is the least number that is the greatest common factor both terms, you pick 5.

oregonduck (oregonduck):

robert is the answer d or not?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

It is

OpenStudy (anonymous):

You want the prime factorization to be as big scale as possible. So the distributive property will then be 5x. Since this is a prime factorization.

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