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Please help me with this question my son keeps getting this wrong, please help I have attached the image of the problem from his math paper.

Please help me with this question my son keeps getting this wrong, please help I have-example-1
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The terms in the given expression are


8x^3y^2,4x^2y^3,40xy^3

The common factor in all the three time is


4xy^2

Take the common factor outside the brackets and write the remaining inside the brackets.


4xy^2(2x^2-xy+10y)

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