Plz Check

[Dominic]

Evaluate: (g - 6h)(g + 6h)

(g)(g) + (g)(h) + (-6h)(g) + (-6h)(6h)

g^2 + gh + (-6gh) + (-36h^2)

g^2 - 30 g^2h^4 <-- answer

Is this right?

 

[Matt]

Hi Dominic,

Evaluate: (g - 6h)(g + 6h)

(g)(g) + (g)(h) + (-6h)(g) + (-6h)(6h)

g^2 + gh + (-6gh) + (-36h^2) stop right here

It looks like you are using FOIL. That last line should actually be:

. . . . g² + 6gh + (-6gh) + (-36h²)

which makes the final answer:

. . . . g² -36h²

 

[Denis]

"Evaluate: (g - 6h)(g + 6h)
(g)(g) + (g)(h) + (-6h)(g) + (-6h)(6h)
g^2 + gh + (-6gh) + (-36h^2) stop right here"

Actually, "stop" a line earlier!
Your 2nd term should be (g)(6h): that's your only error...

 

[Dominic]

thanks

 

[Guest]

It seems like some information is missing or the problem was not asked correctly (possibly by a textbook). "g² - 36h²" is not evaluated. When you evaluate something, you end up with a number, not an expression with variables. Perhaps the instructions meant to be "simplify" or "expand".

 

[~Midnight.Kitten~]

so would tyou add the oppoisite to 6 which would be -6 ? as a step to the answer?

 

[Gene]

Ashley, Matt has it correct. I don't follow your "add the opposite of 6"
Everyone should notice that the original problem is in the form
(a+b)(a-b) which always gives a^2-b^2