Question #d8676
2 Answers
Explanation:
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Using:
Explanation:
The expression
It's the same as
The factorization of the Difference of Two Squares (by memory):
Factor
I wonder if this question was written to be a challenge.
Maybe the textbook is trying to see if you get confused?
Possibly a student might mix up these two problems:
#144^2 - 9# (Correctly thinking "144 is being squared")#144^2 - 9# (Incorrectly thinking "144 is a square")
A student who is accidentally solving this:
will get this incorrect answer: