What is the greatest common factor of x5 y and x4 y2?
2006-10-10 15:00:24 · 5 answers · asked by Korey's Mamacita 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
Look at both terms and find the greatest amount of x's and y's you can take out of both. Are those numbers co-efficients or exponents?
I'm guessing they are exponents with the way you ordered the terms. You can take a maximum of 4x's out of the 2nd term, which leaves you with 1x in the first term and none in the 2nd. You can take a max of 1y out of the 1st term which leaves you with none left in the first and 1 in the 2nd.
x^4y * (x + y)
Therefore the greatest factor would be x^4*y (x to the 4th times y)
Hope I answered your question.
2006-10-10 15:09:37 · answer #1 · answered by Jewelz S 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
x5 y and x4 y2
x^4y*x and x^4y*y
Greatest common factor is x^4y
2006-10-10 22:30:20 · answer #2 · answered by yupchagee 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
x4y is the answer because both X5Y and X4Y2 contain x4 and y!!!
Good luck on your studies!!
2006-10-10 22:09:53 · answer #3 · answered by lamy_v_001 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
x4 y
2006-10-10 22:13:12 · answer #4 · answered by First L 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
x4y
because x^5y=x^4y * x and
x^4y^2 = x^4y * y
2006-10-10 22:02:13 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋