Practice Expansion Intuition in Math
Use these practice problems to test your method after reviewing the concept explanation and worked examples.
Quick Recap
Understanding algebraic expansion as the process of applying the distributive property to multiply out factors and remove parentheses.
Open up the parentheses: (x + 2)(x + 3) becomes x^2 + 3x + 2x + 6 = x^2 + 5x + 6.
Example 1
easyExpand (x + 3)(x + 5).
Example 2
mediumExpand (2x - 3)^2.
Example 3
easyExpand (x - 2)(x + 7).
Example 4
mediumExpand (a + b)^2.