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How does this expression 3x squared - 4xy-4y squared get to 3x squared -6yx+2yx-4y squared?
Answer provided by our tutors
the term, -4xy was split into -6xy+2xy (note that -6xy+2xy=-4xy), so that there is a common factor between the first two terms and last two terms in the expression