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We are looking to factor the following problem.
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Now, this is a problem that deals with two variables, and the thing we want to look for with two variables is separation.
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So by separation, we take the middle term that contains both variables, and we break it into two parts like so.
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We break into two parts where there's a common factor between both sides.
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So if you think of it like a right side and a left side, we break it apart where there's a common factor in both terms.
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So in this case, we have one and two, and three and six.
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And we know that three is the number we probably want to be working with, because we have a six, and six can only be factored with two and three.
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So either one would work.
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And so from here, now we notice that there's something we can pull out from each term...