Factorize:
$m x - m y - n x + n y$

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Solution

We need to factorise $m x - m y - n x + n y$
Thus we have $m x - m y - n x + n y = m (x - y) - n (x - y)$
Factor out the term $x - y$ , we get
$= (x - y) (m - n)$

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