Mastodawn

I have a math problem that is possibly a brain glitch or possibly something I don’t understand.

For the expression 5x+3y+10

It says to identify the factors (coefficient and sum of terms)

What are they saying? I don’t see a factor here we can take out

The English for the whole thing seems stilted at best ("whole number of terms"?).

My guess is:

• Sometimes, you can "take out" a factor with expressions of this form (e.g. `2x + 2y + 6`)

• Stiltedness aside, the factored expression is expressed as a "coefficient and a sum of the terms" (e.g. `2 (x + y + 3)`)

• Since you can't remove a whole factor from this expression, the answer is either that you indeed can't, or maybe, like, `1 (5x + 3y + 10)`?

@Starfia exactly my thought process. And that was not correct either according to the teacher.

Oh – you've heard from the teacher?

@Starfia no, the student tried that on the retake and it was marked wrong. I’m hoping to hear what the teacher wanted