Mathematics GCSE
Binomial expansion
What Binomial expansion means in Mathematics GCSE, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Binomial expansion
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Reference: AQA
Multiplying every term in the first bracket by every term in the second, often remembered as FOIL, then collecting like terms.
Topics that use Binomial expansion
- Notation, vocabulary and manipulation (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- algebraic equivalence
- algebraic notation
- composite functions
- difference of two squares
- equation
- expanding brackets
- Expression
- factorising quadratics
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