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Multiply, (x+4)(x-4)  simplify answer.

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I think it is:

(x+4)(x-4)
x(x-4)+4(x-4)
x2-4x+4x-16
x2-16
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User Stensootla
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That's the easily recognizable factored form of
the difference between two squares. Before
factoring, it was

x² - 16 .
User Aeubanks
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