Is your answer always a trinomial when you multiply a monomial with a trinomial?
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This means that you will have three terms, each of which is the product of the monomial and one of the terms in the trinomial. For example, if you multiply 2x by (3x + 4 - 5y), you get: 2x(3x) + 2x(4) - 2x(5y) Show more…
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