SOLUTION: In algebra 1, how do you multiply polynomials?

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Question 498527: In algebra 1, how do you multiply polynomials?
Answer by richard1234(7193) About Me  (Show Source):
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Depends. Sometimes you can use FOIL (acronym for first-outer-inner-last, order in which you can expand terms)



Some higher-order polynomials you might just have to go term by term, satisfying the distributive property:



If you are raising a binomial to a power, use the binomial theorem.



Here, nCk denotes the number of ways to choose k objects from a set of n objects, regardless of order.