SOLUTION: please help me to solve this equation (x-3)(8x+12)

Question 151504: please help me to solve this equation (x-3)(8x+12)
Found 2 solutions by checkley77, jim_thompson5910:
Answer by checkley77(12844) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
(x-3)(8x+12)
8x^2+12x-24x-36
8x^2-12x-36
4(2x^2-3x-9)
Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
This is not an equation. So you cannot solve it, but you can simplify.

Start with the given expression.

Now let's FOIL the expression.

Remember, when you FOIL an expression, you follow this procedure:

Multiply the First terms:.

Multiply the Outer terms:.

Multiply the Inner terms:.

Multiply the Last terms:.

Now collect every term to make a single expression.

Now combine like terms.

So FOILS to .

In other words, .

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