Question

What does it mean to factor th expression 20b - 16?

Answer 1

Ues Cymath.com

Answer 2

use*

Answer 3

ok thanks

Answer 4

Medal

Answer 5

Please?

Answer 6

@ms-brains is that how you have been solving the problems? You should not use those sites unless you already know how to solve them/ using it to check work.

Answer 7

You can pull out a 4 for your problem, 4(5b-4), we are factoring out a 4.

Answer 8

there are 2 'terms' in youir expression

they are 20b & -16

to 'FActor' means finding a value that divide into both terms, so you can separate it from each term (as shown by @Astrophysics above)

So 4 is a common factor for 20b and -16. When you divide it into each term you get teh expression as shown by @Astrophysics

Answer 9

Thanks @MrNood