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Determine the greatest common factor of
30w5 + 25w3

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what is the greatest common factor?

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User Zac Charles
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The GCF is the product of shared primes of the numbers prime factorizations...

30=2*3*5 and 25=5*5, so the GCF is just 5

The GCF of w^5=w*w*w*w*w and w^3=w*w*w, so GCF is w*w*w=w^3

5w^3 is the GCF of the expression.
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