Unit
Polynomials
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MA, Stanford University
Teaching in the San Francisco Bay Area
Alissa is currently a teacher in the San Francisco Bay Area and Brightstorm users love her clear, concise explanations of tough concepts
Since a binomial has two terms, we need to "double distribute" to multiply two binomials: the first term gets multiplied by both terms in the second parentheses, and then the second term also gets multiplied by both terms in the parentheses. You should end up with four terms, and often, two of them can be combined. Terms can be combined if they are "like terms," meaning they have the same exponents.
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