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Introduction to factoring higher degree monomials

Just as we can factor 12 as 2⋅6 or as 3⋅4, we can factor monomials like 6x⁷ as 2x³⋅3x⁴ or as x⁶⋅6x. We can also perform prime factorization on a monomial.

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