SOLUTION: please multiply (5x-2)^2 thank you

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Question 197662: please multiply

(5x-2)^2

thank you

Found 2 solutions by checkley77, jim_thompson5910:
Answer by checkley77(6671) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
(5x-2)^2
5x-2
5x-2
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25x^2-10x-10x+4
25x^2-20x+4 ams.

Answer by jim_thompson5910(13679) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!

Start with the given expression.


Expand. Remember something like .


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:.


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So we have the terms: , , ,


Now add every term listed above to make a single expression.


Now combine like terms.


So FOILs to .


In other words, .