SOLUTION: Is this possible?? a²+a Im in year 8 and my teacher "doesn't want to confuse me cos its year 10 stuff" she doesn't realise that im not an idiot...

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Question 728860: Is this possible??
a²+a
Im in year 8 and my teacher "doesn't want to confuse me cos its year 10 stuff" she doesn't realise that im not an idiot...

Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
You cannot combine these terms as they aren't like terms, so you leave it as

Optionally you could factor it to get , but there's not much you can do to simplify it.

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