Sara has 16 red flowers and 24 yellow flowers. She wants to make a bouquet with the same number of each color flowers in each bo
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Step 1: Group this into two groups:
When you do that, be sure to group the "–" into the group with the 9 and make sure there's "+" between the groups.
Step 2: Factor out the GCF from both individual groups:
Step 3: Notice both groups have that (h+2)? That's a new GCF between the two groups, so factor that out:
Step 4: That piece can be factored further, since it's a difference of squares:
Now it's factored.