Question

How can a Greatest Common Factor be separated from an expression?

Answer 1

When you are factoring a polynomial expression.

Answer 2

Answer: By factoring

Explanation:

We use distributive property to multiply a number to a sum of different numbers by multiply the number individually to the number present in the sum such as

`a(b+c)=ab+ac`

But using the distributive property in reverse, the sum of two products can be written as a product of one number which is the greatest common factor and the sum of two numbers because the number and the sum are the factors of the resulting product, using the distributive property in reverse is known as factoring.

`ab+ac=a(b+c)`