What is 2x multiplied by x squared?

Answer 1

2x * x^2 = 2x^3.

Multiply the parts that are alike. The first term has a coefficient of 2, the second term has a coefficient of 1 (x = 1*x). The first term has variable x (which is x^1), the second term has variable x^2. Since they have the same base (both are x), we can add the powers together (x^2 = x * x, so x * x^2 = x * x * x = x^3)

Answer 2

It's difficult to identify where the parentheses belong in the question.

Here are the answers corresponding to a few possibilities:

x (2x2) = 2x3

x (2x)2 = 4x3

(x · 2x)2 = 4x4

Answer 3

2x