I’m not sure if your asking help to factor the equation. Here is the answer to the equation that I factored. -v^3(v^72-2v^24 + 1) Hope that helps you.
This question is saying that all the dimension of the statue are multiplied by a certain value in order to get to the scaled dimensions.
We can do 6/18 to find the scale value to be 1/3
The answer will be 159861