How do you multiply (7z+8x)(7z8x)?

2 Answers
Mar 3, 2018

(7z+8x)(7z8x)
7z7z7z8x+8x7z8x8x
49z256zx+56xz64x2
49z264x2

Mar 3, 2018

49z264x2

Explanation:

The trick to solving binomial expansions is to start with the leftmost term and multiply it with the other two numbers in the next bracket, and move to the second number in the first bracket and then multiply that number with the two numbers in the other bracket, separately.

Hence:

  1. (7z×7z)=49z2

2.(7z×8x)=56xz

3.Start using 8x: (8x×7z)=56xz

4.(8x×8x)=64x2

Then we simply add all the terms together:
49z2+(56xz)+56xz+(64x2)=49z264x2