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What's the difference?

What's the difference?-example-1

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All I know is
(-2x)2= 4x
-2x2= -4x
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User Steverino
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In -2x
x^(2), the exponent will be dealt with first. With (-2x)
^(2), the multiplication is going to be done first. This is determined because of Order of operations.
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