Lin missed math class on the day they worked on expanding and factoring, Kiran is helping Lin catch up. Lin understands that expanding is using the distributive property, but she doesn't understand what factoring is or why it works. How can Kiran explain factoring
to Lin?

in problems involving proportions, we can use cross products to test whether two ratios are equal and form a proportion. to find the cross products of a proportion, we multiply the outer terms, called the extremes, and the middle terms, called the means.

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