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If you are talking about a factor of a polynomial, then you can FOIL it back to its original problem.

x^2+x-12

factors into to (x-3)(x+4)

if you FOIL it, by doing this:

x*x+4x-3x-12

you will get x^2+x-12, the original problem.

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