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Time for your daily dose of Shmoop...this won't hurt a bit.

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Factor 4x squared y plus

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16xy plus 12x squared plus 48x

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And here are the potential answers...

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Okay we have ourselves another factoring

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problem. What's the common thread or unit between

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all four of these elements? Ahh well, there we've already given you a hint.

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Yeah the number 4 part of it. What else?

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X. Okay so there's a 4x common to all of these

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and we can factor it out to make life oh so much simpler.

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We now have an equation that looks like this: 4x times the quantity xy

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plus 4y plus 3x plus 12 we have an equation here

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a very common form. We can factor this down to the

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quantity X plus 4 times the quantity y plus 3.

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Here we go. So boom! The answer is B.

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