AQA GCSE Mathematics · 8300

Expression Manipulation

What you need to know

Simplify expressions by collecting like terms.
Multiply a single term over a bracket.
Take out common factors.
Simplify expressions involving sums, products, and powers using laws of indices.
Expand products of two or more binomials.
Factorise quadratic expressions of the form $x^2 + bx + c$ and .

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ax^2 + bx + c

Apply the difference of two squares.

Simplify and manipulate expressions involving surds and algebraic fractions.