Answer:

Step-by-step explanation:
The first step is to find the GCF. Here, it's 3.

Then, you factor the polynomial in the parenthesis.
To find the factors, you will need to find 2 numbers that add to -7, and multiply to 10. -2 and -5 add to -7 and multiply to 10. Now, replace -7a with the factors.

This of this polynomial as 2 problems.

Then, factor again.


Then, you keep the factors in parenthesis, and combine the numbers on the outside.

Since, there are 2 of the same factor, you only need one.

BUT REMEMBER!! In the very beginning, we had a 3 that we took out, we STILL need to add that to the final answer. The <u>final answer</u> is:

10 - 5 = 5
Hope this helped your husband.
2 x length + 2 x width = perimeter.
2(2s-5) + 2(4s-13) = 108
Simplify:
4s-10 + 8s-26 = 108
Combine like terms:
12s - 36 = 108
Add 36 to both sides:
12s = 144
Divide both sides by 12:
s = 144/12
s = 12
Now replace s with 12 in each equation:
2(12) - 5 = 24-5 = 19
4(12) - 13 = 48-13 = 35
The answer is d. 35,35, 19,19