Can anyone please help me out with step by step directions on how to solve this.

Recall that the greatest common factor between two polynomial expressions is the largest positive factor that divides each of the polynomial expressions.
Notice that:
[tex]\begin{gathered} 50n^2=10\times5n^2, \\ 45n^3=9n\times5n^2. \end{gathered}[/tex]Therefore the greatest common factor of the given monomials is:
[tex]5n^2.[/tex]Answer:
[tex]5n^2.[/tex]