This may be hard but can someone give me tips to me understand factoring?

Ivan began dividing g2  – 6 by g + 1, noting that . he started by placing g in the quotient, as shown below. what is g2  – 6 divided by g + 1? g –  1 –  g + 1  – g  –  7 + g  –  5  + 

Which is the graph of f(x) = (4)x? image for option 1 image for option 2 image for option 3 image for option 4

Nick has box brads. he uses 4 brads for the first project. nick let’s b represent the original number of brads and finds that for the second project, the number of brads he uses is 8 more than half the difference of b and 4. write an expression to represent the number of brads he uses for the second project.