18s^9 t^3 - 2s^9 t^2 = 9 can anyone explain pleases,thanks

18s^9 t^3 - 2s^9 t^2 can be factored into

2s^9 t^2 (9t-1)

No idea how that can be evaluated to 9. I suspect there is something missing or garbled in the problem statement as shown.