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4. factor the following:


2x^2-72

First thing we do is to factor common term 2 as it follows


=2(x^2-36)

then, we factor x^2-36


=2\cdot(x-6)\cdot(x+6)

from the above, we can see that the error was in not multiplying by 2 in the last step

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