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ACT Aspire Math: Squaring Binomials 2 Views


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What is the square of the binomial (5x – 7)?


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Okay Math shmoop er's another drill What's the square of

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the binomial Five x minus seven All right So first

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we translate question from after english which happens to be

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something like compute the product of the quantity five x

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minus seven times the quantity five x minus seven or

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something like that That's better anyway both played sherman the

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first princes by each term in the second princess Remember

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foil Yeah to make sure each term gets paired with

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each other term we think first outside inside last method

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right that's foil Multiply the two first terms than add

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that to the outside two terms there Then add on

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the product of the two inside terms like this and

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this And then you khun tack on the product of

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the last two term So it all looks like this

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mess right here And then it kind of combines or

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simplifies here Twenty five x squared minus thirty five x

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minus thirty five Acts plus 49 and we simplify combining

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like terms I get the negative seventy x in the

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middle there and that's it We translated the question from

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unknown to correct answer as indy right there So yeah

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neener squared

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