In the activity students enter factor pairs in a table and what they enter is displayed in a graph component. It works EXCEPT when they type x. If they type 1x it will display but it is more likely that they will just use x.
This happens on problems labeled 3, 4, 7, 8. All the other ones work because the Other Factor has a coefficient that is not 1.
Here is the activity: Factoring Using the GCF (part 1)