Hi there!

We can see this by writing the factors as multipliers. We get the following:


Now we can see that the terms that are in common are 3 and a, and therefore we can bring those outside the parenthesis.
Answer: 4 years
Step-by-step explanation:
144 + 8(4) = 176
108 - 5(4) = 88
88 x 2 = 176
Answer:
5/10
Step-by-step explanation:
if you add all the non- chocolate chip cookies than you have 10 other cookies.
since there are 5 chocolate chip cookies than the probability would be
5/10 or 1/2