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How do you expand a minus b squared?

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Anonymous

13y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

It depends if there are parentheses or not... for example

if the problem looks like this: (-b)^2, then do (-b)x(-b) and get b^2

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if the problem looks like this: -b^2, then do -(b)(b) which would be -b^2

As u can see, the parentheses' placement make a large difference in the final answer.

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13y ago

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