Expanding brackets: involves removing the brackets from an expression by multiplying out the brackets. This is achieved by multiplying every term inside the bracket by the term outside the bracket.
Example - Expanding a single pair of brackets a) Expand: 3(x+6). a) Remember to multiply every term inside the brackets by the term outside: 3(x+6)=3×x+3×6=3x+18. b) Expand: 6(4a−10). b) Remember to multiply every term inside the brackets by t
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