Answer:
D: -5(-6x^2 + x + 2)
E: 5(2x + 1)(3x − 2)
Step-by-step explanation:
The <em>first two answer choices have incorrect constants</em> (25 and 3 vs -10). A factor of 5 is removed from the remaining answer choices, so let's remove a factor of 5 and see what we get:
30x^2 -5x -10 = 5(6x^2 -x -2)
An additional x cannot be factored from the expression, so <em>choice C can be eliminated</em>.
Multiplying each of these factors by -1 will make the product correspond to answer choice D.
Factoring will make it correspond to answer choice E, best verified by finding the x-term of the product of the binomial factors:
E: 2x(-2) +1(3x) = -x, as required
F: 2x(2) -1(3x) = x, wrong sign
The equivalent expressions are those of choices D and E.
