Eric Nicholas K's answer to Sandra's Junior College 1 H2 Maths Singapore question.

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Eric Nicholas K
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Something like this.

We factorise out the square of a - b go obtain a 1 in the bracket which we will subsequently do a binomial expansion on.

The rest is just simplification.