How do you factor $6x^2+6x^3$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2018-03-10T18:04:08

$6x^2+6x^3=5x^2(1+x)$

We can bring out a $6$ out of both terms to begin with:

$6x^2+6x^3=6(x^2+x^3)$

Now we notice that we can also bring out an $x^2$ :

$6(x^2+x^3)=6x^2(1+x)$

which is the most factoring we can do.

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