Area Model of multiplication

Area Model of multiplication

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What is the area of the rectangle. Use ^ when you need a power.

Multiplying Polynomials: Area Method

• Fill in the bubbles by writing one of the binomials along the top of the box, and the other down the side of the box. 

• Multiply rows times columns.

• After multiplying, collect like terms. (They should be in the diagonal).

Multiply to find out what goes in each box.

This is what you should have got. Now combine like terms if needed.

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Add the like terms and put the answer for the like terms only.

Final Answer

Set up the box for this problem

(x + 2)(x - 3)

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What goes in the missing box?

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What is the final answer?

Set up the boxes to multiply by a trinomial

Multiply to fill in each box.

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What do you get when you add up the like terms that are circled?

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What do you get when you add up the like terms that are circled?

Final Answer

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Use the box method to multiply (x + 5)(x² - 2x + 7). Put in the final answer.