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Hi, Am trying to help my autistic boy and unfortunately am not very good with math. He has a Age Word Problem as below: Bill and Ben are brothers the sum of their ages is equal to 4 times Bob's age who is half as old as Bridget. The average age of the 4 children is 8. Write this as an equation, then...

Hi,

Can the following be factorise'd further?

16abc + 24abc - 4ac
4a ( 4bc + 6b -c )

16ab - 16as - 24pt + 24ps
16a(b-s) - 24p(t-s)