The ratio is 4/5. They both can be reduced down by 9.
It would be C and here's why:
you originally start with 3x² - 14x - 5. The AC method to factoring says you have to get two middle terms that multiply to whatever 3 × -5 is and have to add to -14. Well 3 × -5 is -15. Raul chose two middle terms of 15x and -1x and 15 × -1 is -15 so that part is correct. However 15 - 1 = 14. The middle term of our original trinomial is -14 so "<span>The two middle coefficients multiply to the correct number, but do not add to the correct number."</span>
