SOLUTION: Hey, I'm really stuck trying to figure the answer to the following question: Add (or simplify the following): x^2 + x^2y^2 + 2x^2y^2 If possible can you please provide me

Question 3836: Hey,
I'm really stuck trying to figure the answer to the following question:
Add (or simplify the following):
x^2 + x^2y^2 + 2x^2y^2
If possible can you please provide me a detailed answer with full workings, so that way I'll understand for future references.
Thanks
Chris
Answer by longjonsilver(2297) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
the second and third terms are the same (they are both terms), so we can add them to give . Leave it like that...you cannot add anything else.

However, what mathematicians prefer to do, is to factorise something...ie write it as "one thing" multiplied by "another thing". So, we get,

I would leave it in this form.

jon

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