Question

How do you evaluate `(m + 8) ( m - 2)`?

Answer 1

See below.

Explanation:

We FOIL this.
`(m+8)(m-2)`
`m^2-2m+8m-16=m^2+6m-16`

For more on FOILing, see this website:
http://www.mathwords.com/f/foil_method.htm