How do you find the product of (4h-2)(4h-1)?

1 Answer
Jul 15, 2017

See a solution process below:

Explanation:

To multiply these two terms you multiply each individual term in the left parenthesis by each individual term in the right parenthesis.

(color(red)(4h) - color(red)(2))(color(blue)(4h) - color(blue)(1)) becomes:

(color(red)(4h) xx color(blue)(4h)) - (color(red)(4h) xx color(blue)(1)) - (color(red)(2) xx color(blue)(4h)) + (color(red)(2) xx color(blue)(1))

16h^2 - 4h - 8h + 2

We can now combine like terms:

16h^2 + (-4 - 8)h + 2

16h^2 + (-12)h + 2

16h^2 - 12h + 2