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What is the greatest common factor in the expression 3x - xy?
The number part will just be 1, since 3 and - 1 don't have any common factors besides 1 and - 1. The variable part will be x. The greatest common factor is just x. Not just x, like x isn't important, we just mean... x isn't really...oh boy. Here we go again.

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