here you go! :) so first you have to get the gcf so it would be 3x and then divde by that giving you x^2+2x-8 then do the x -8 on top and 2 on bottom 4 times -2 gives you -8 and when adding them it will give you 2 so that brings your answer to 3x (x+4)(x-2) hope this helped!