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Good Morning
Everyone!
 Objectives:
At the end of the session, students are expected to:
1. define factoring, common monomial factor, and greatest common factor;
2. find the greatest common factor of the terms in the given polynomial
3. factor completely polynomials with common monomial factor.
 Unlocking of Vocabulary
Factoring is the reverse process of multiplication.
Difficulties
Example: If we multiply...
2 ∙3 ¿ 6
If we factor…
6¿ 2 ∙3
• When a number or a polynomial is factored, it is
written as a product of two or more factors.
• For all integers if then are factors of .

• A polynomial is said to be factored into prime factors if it

is expressed as a product of two or more irreducible or
prime polynomials of the same type.

• A prime number is a natural number greater than 1 that

has exactly two factors,
1 and itself.
• A prime number is a
natural number greater
than 1 that has exactly
two factors, 1 and
itself.
• Recall that a composite number can always be expressed as a product of prime
factors, as such process of factoring is called prime factorization.

• The simplest algorithm to find the prime factors of a number is to keep on

dividing the original number by prime factors until we get the remainder equal to
1. 
• The following are the prime factorization of some integers.
30 ¿ 2 ∙3 ∙ 5

2 15
35
The following are prime factorization of some integers.
7 0¿ 2 ∙5 ∙ 7
2 4 ¿ 2 ∙2 ∙ 2∙ 3=2 ∙ 3
3

42 ¿ 2 ∙3 ∙ 7
Give the prime factorization of each number.

48
120
36
Like integers, monomials can also be expressed as a product of prime numbers
and variables with no exponent greater than 1.

2
18 𝑥 𝑦 ¿ 2 ∙3 ∙ 3 ∙ 𝑥 ∙ 𝑥 ∙ 𝑦

¿ 2 ∙2 ∙ 3 ∙3 ∙ 𝑎 ∙𝑎 ∙ 𝑎 ∙ 𝑎 ∙ 𝑏∙ 𝑏 ∙ 𝑐
Prime factorization is a very useful process in the study of algebra. It is used
particularly in finding the greatest common factor of
two or more expressions.
 18= 2x 3x 3 =2

2 9

3 3
The greatest common factor is the largest integer, monomial, or multinomial
that a set of numbers or polynomials have in common.
Example: Find the GCF of
Solution: Express each as a product of prime factors.
3 2
12 𝑥 𝑦¿(2)(2)(3)(𝑥 )(𝑥 )(𝑥 )( 𝑦 )( 𝑦 )
2
8 𝑥 𝑦 ¿ ( 2 ) ( 2 ) ( 2 ) ( 𝑥 ) ( 𝑦 )( 𝑦 )
2 2
4 𝑥 𝑦 ¿ ( 2 ) ( 2 ) ( 𝑥 ) ( 𝑥 ) ( 𝑦 )( 𝑦 )
The GCF of these three monomials is
Example 2: Find the GCF of
Solution: Express each as a product of prime factors.
2 3 3
24 𝑎 𝑏 𝑐
3 4
30 𝑎 𝑏𝑐 ¿ ( 2 ) ( 3 ) ( 5 ) ( 𝑎 ) ( 𝑎 ) ( 𝑎 ) ( 𝑏 ) (𝑐 )(𝑐 )(𝑐 )(𝑐 )
2 2
48 𝑎𝑏 𝑐 ¿ ( 2 ) ( 2 ) ( 2 ) ( 2 ) ( 3 ) ( 𝑎 ) ( 𝑏 ) ( 𝑏 ) (𝑐 )(𝑐 )

The GCF of these three monomials is

If each term of a polynomial is divisible by the same monomial,
this monomial is referred to as common monomial factor.

Common Monomial Factoring

1. Find the greatest common factor (GCF) of the terms in the
polynomial. This is the first factor.
2. Divide each term by the GCF to get the other factor.
Example 1: Factor
Step 1: Find the GCF of the terms of the polynomial. This is the first factor.

Step 2: Divide each term by the GCF to get the other factor.
2
8𝑥 12 𝑥
+ =2 𝑥 +3
4𝑥 4𝑥
Therefore, the factor of
Example 2: Factor
Step 1: Find the GCF of the terms of the polynomial. This is the first factor.

Step 2: Divide each term by the GCF to get the other factor.
2 3 2
6 𝑎 8 𝑎 𝑏 14 𝑎   𝑏 2 2
+ − =3+4 𝑎𝑏− 7 𝑎 𝑏
2𝑎 2𝑎 2𝑎
Therefore, the factor of )