The expression above can be written in the form , where a and b are constants. What is the value

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The expression above can be written in the form , where a and b are constants. What is the value of ?

Accepted Answer

The correct answer is 6632. Applying the distributive property to the expression yields . Then adding together and and collecting like terms results in . This is written in the form , where and . Therefore .

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