Step-by-step explanation
Our task is to factor the expression
.
So what we do is we find the gcf of this expression by listing all the factors of 16 and 24,
16 -> 1, 2, 4, 8, 16
24 -> 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, 24
gcf -> 8
We factor it out :
Divide each term by 8;