How do you factor 2t plus 20?

Answer 1

Say it looks like this: 2t+20

Do you see any common factors?

The biggest common factor in the equation would be 2, so you would divide the whole thing by 2.

2t/2 + 20/2

Then, you would solve that and come up with this.

t+10

But there is something missing :(. You need to put the 2 in front of that whole thing to show you factored it out.

(Don't forget your parenthesis to show that you are factoring the whole thing)

2(t+10)

And that's it!

Good Luck in Algebra!