Question

Need this written in factored form

Answer 1

What's a pair of numbers that are addends of -6 but factors of 5? That would would be -5 & -1. Now we can break it up into groups. That will give us (x^2 - 5x)(x - 1). Now do the same for the second one. That will give us (x^2 - 8x)(x - 1x).