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PSAT 1.41 Math Diagnostic. Which of the following is equivalent to the expression?

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PSAT 1.41 Math Diagnostic. Which of the following is equivalent to the expression?

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Sorry and here's your smoked you sure Brought to you

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by dogs full of homework You might be excited when

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you pass but just imagine how your dog feels All

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right Which of the following is equivalent to twenty five

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x to the fourth power minus sixty x squared y

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squared plus thirty six y to the fourth power And

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here the potential answers are equivalent to so yeah we're

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gonna factor a whole bunch of parentheses Alright big coefficients

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A couple of different variables Gobs of exponents I guess

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we should start feeding our dog our homework Right This

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one is way simpler than it looks We need toe

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not get fido involved The trick here is to recognize

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that the expression where given is really the difference of

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two squares squared So check out the first and last

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term's twenty five x of the fourth and thirty six

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Why To the fourth notice anything interesting about those values

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Yeah they're both perfect squares Square room twenty five five

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hundred thirty six is six and x squared times X

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squared will get us x to the forth So that

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part works out as well The other big thing to

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notice is that there's a negative in there Which means

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that whatever this factors into must include at least one

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minus side only options being d or way too positive

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there's No way you could ever get to that negative

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sixty x squared y squared in the middle because no

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matter how you slice it everything will always multiply out

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to be positive right away We can eliminate those doing

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knuckleheads Which leaves us just a and c is possible

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answers Well at this point we can multiply through for

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each of them until we find a result that matches

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the expression we've been given We should start by re

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writing it this way Five x squared minus six y

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squared times five x squared minus six y squared Then

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we just distribute our way through this thing Well we

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get twenty five x of the fourth minus thirty x

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squared y squared minus another thirty x squared y squared

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plus thirty six Why To the fourth Well after adding

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like terms were left with twenty five x to the

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fourth minus c like the x squared y squared plus

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thirty six y to the fourth and boom We've got

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our answer It's option a c totally not worth freaking

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out about in framing your best friend now Besides he

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still full from your sister's rhetoric essay from last night

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