document.write( "<A HREF=/cgi-bin/jump-to-question.mpl?question=1184872>Question 1184872</A>: <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> This question stumps me. The way I solved it was using the foil method but I didn't get it right.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "f(x) = x+1<BR>\n" );
document.write( "g(x) = x^2+4\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "A) (f*g)(x)<BR>\n" );
document.write( "B) (g*f)(x)<BR>\n" );
document.write( "C) (f*f)(x)<BR>\n" );
document.write( "D) (g*g)(x)\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "The answers I got were,\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "A) x^3+x^2+4x+4<BR>\n" );
document.write( "B) x^3+x^2+4x+4<BR>\n" );
document.write( "C) x^2+2x+1<BR>\n" );
document.write( "D) x^4+8x^2+16\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Do we have to supply a point for X or am I just thinking way too hard into it?<BR>\n" );
document.write( "Also, the way we have to write the function is from largest degree to the smallest degree, for example, 2x^2-4x+5, and I thought I did that but my answers are probably just wrong. :/ </SPAN>\n" );
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document.write( "Your answers are fine.<br><BR>\n" );
document.write( "If you were asked to find, for example (f*g)(3), then you would of course need to use the given value of x to find the answer.  But they didn't ask you to evaluate any of the functions for a particular value of x.<br><BR>\n" );
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