Answer:
[tex]5x^2 - x - 17[/tex]
Step-by-step explanation:
Distribute the terms inside the first set of parentheses:
[tex](2x - 7)(x + 3) = 2x^2 + 6x - 7x - 21[/tex]
Combine like terms:
[tex]= 2x^2 - x - 21[/tex]
Simplify by adding the second part:
[tex]2x^2 - x - 21 - (-3x^2 - 4)[/tex]
Subtracting a negative is the same as adding the positive equivalent:
[tex]= 2x^2 - x - 21 + 3x^2 + 4[/tex]
Combine like terms:
[tex]= 5x^2 - x - 17[/tex]
(2x-7)(x+3)-(-3x^[2] - 4)
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5x^[2] -x -17
To begin simplifying this expression, we will foil the first half of it:
(2x-7)(x+3)
2x*x + 2x*3 - 7*x - 7*3
2x^[2] + 6x - 7x - 21
With this, we combine like terms:
2x^[2]-x-21
We now have
2x^[2]-x-21-(-3x^[2]-4)
We can now do the binomial distribution in the second half of the expression. Remember, the - sign in front of the parentheses means we are negating everything inside. In other words, we are multiplying -1 by everything inside the parentheses. Following this:
-(-3x^[2]-4) becomes
-1*-3x^[2] + -1*-4 = 3x^[2]+4
We have now simplified the first and second half of our expression, so we have:
2x^[2]-x-21+3x^[2]+4
And combining like terms we get
2x^[2]+3x^[2]-x-21+4 =
5x^[2] -x -17
We can use the quadratic expression to determine if the trinomial can be factored evenly, but it cannot so we have our final simplifed expression!