I don't understand.  Could you please show the work.

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both the first term 64a^4 and the last term 25b^2 are perfect squares, so I took the square root of both

(8a^2 -5b)(a^2-5b) then I checked to see whether the sum of the outside and inside terms make -80a^2b. They did.

factoring is trial and error, but noticing the two squares made it straightforward
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