SOLUTION: Please help... multiply and simplify (1 + square factor 3)^2 please show me how to work this out... Thank you

Question 169711: Please help...
multiply and simplify
(1 + square factor 3)^2
please show me how to work this out...
Thank you
Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let

So the expression becomes

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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Now collect every term to make a single expression.

Now combine like terms.

So FOILs to .

In other words, .

So

Start with the right side of the last equation

Square to get 3

Combine like terms.

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Answer:

So
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