Eric Nicholas K's answer to Tricia Chew's Secondary 3 A Maths Singapore question.

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Eric Nicholas K
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Quite weird. I could not factorise that expression. I suspect a mistyping of the question, because the second part is supposed to be related to the first part.

In fact, I found part i also weird. The expression in part a is supposed to be divided by (2x + 1) after I thought about it further.