Question

moar simplifying.....yay...

Answer 1

\[40u-56\]

Answer 2

This is the entire question, and it asks you to simplify this expression. Am I correct?

Answer 3

yea. it wants me to return it to its distributive form

Answer 4

can you factor 40 and 56 into their prime factors ?

Answer 5

yea I think. oh btw, my comp. is messed up so I need to look at a diff ques. every time I want to reply.

Answer 6

40= 4 x 10 or 5 x 8 or 2 x 20 and 56= 6 x 9

Answer 7

** I need to look at a diff quest.***
I have that problem with firefox. But it works with safari. Maybe try a different browser?

To factor numbers, it's helpful to learn a few "divisibility rules"
http://www.mathsisfun.com/divisibility-rules.html

Also, memorize a few of the prime numbers:
http://primes.utm.edu/lists/small/1000.txt

Answer 8

sites wont work on this school computer

Answer 9

40 = 2*2*2*5
56= 2*2*2*7

you can see both have 2*2*2 (i.e. 8) that you can factor out

can you get to wikipedia?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divisibility_rule
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_number#Definition_and_examples