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4. Special Products
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Exercise 25 Page 31

16-x^2

Practice makes perfect
Notice that the given expression is the multiplication of conjugates. This allows us to use a shorter method of multiplying the terms than the normal distribution process.
(4-x)(4+x)

(a-b)(a+b)=a^2-b^2

4^2-x^2
16-x^2