Question

What is the coefficient of the x^2 term of the polynomial that would result from the following multiplication?(-2x + 4)(-4x + 9)The coefficient of the x^2 term is

Answer 1

To answer the question we first have to do the multiplication.

`\begin{gathered} (-2x+4)(-4x+9)=8x^2-18x-16x+36 \\ =8x^2-34x+36 \end{gathered}`

From the result we see that the coefficient of the x^2 term is 8.