Answer:
1. It's a quadratic expression bcs the highest power in a quadratic expression is 2. Hence its in standard form. basically anything that follows ax^2 + bx + c
2. x^2-6x+8 (separate the coefficient into 2, where they add to get the coefficient number (-6), and multiply to get the number (8)
x^2-4x-2x+8 (separate it into 2 parts, and factorize each part)
x(x-4)-2(x-4)
(x-2)(x-4)
Hence, x^2-4x-2x+8 is equivalent to (x-2)(x-4)