Why is it useful to factor out the GCF first when factoring?

Acircular city park has a sidewalk directly through the middle that is 111 - feet long. if each bag of fertilizer covers 50 square feet, then determine how many bags of fertilizers the parks and recreation department needs to use to cover the circular park. ignore all the sidewalks around and through the park.

Factor the polynomial 4x4 – 20x2 – 3x2 + 15 by grouping. what is the resulting expression? (4x2 + 3)(x2 – 5) (4x2 – 3)(x2 – 5) (4x2 – 5)(x2 + 3) (4x2 + 5)(x2 – 3)

Multiplying fractions by whole number 5 x 1/3=?