How do you simplify by multiplying (x+10)^2?

1 Answer
Jan 5, 2015

it's easy. As suggested, I first want to show where (a+b)^2 is equal to.
(a+b)^2 = (a+b)* (a+b) = a*(a+b)+b*(a+b) = a*a+b*a+a*b+b*b = a^2+2ab+b^2

Now we can easily fill in x and 10:
(x+10)^2=x^2+2*x*10+10^2 = x^2+20x+100