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how to factor out a negative number
Answer provided by our tutors
By factoring out, the factor is put outside the parentheses or brackets and all the results of the divisions are left inside.
Since you want to factor out '(-4)', you need to divide the expression '(-8d + 20)' by '(-4). This way you will get:
By the definition for division you can write:
