Factor out the minus sign

- 1+30

First, you need to find the greatest common factor, and because we are factoring out the minus sign, it should be a negative number.

For - 1 & 30, the GCM is - 1, and using the GCM, we can factor each of them out:

-1 30

/ / / /

-1 x 1 - 1 x 30

Then, we can use distributive property to factor out the minus with the GCM outside of the parentheses:

-1 + 30 =

-1 (1 + 30)

Your answer will be 29

Step-by-step explanation:

Add - 1 and 30