Sorry but that is just not true in general.
Here is a disproof by a counterexample.
If it were true in general it would be true if x = 1
Suppose x = 1
Now in order for what we are asked to prove to be true in this
case, we must end up with
, which in this case would be
However f(-2) is found by substituting x=-2 in
which is false. So what you were asked to
prove is not true.
Edwin