Wee Yong Geng, Eldric's answer to nancy's Secondary 3 A Maths Singapore question.

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Wee Yong Geng, Eldric
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Eric Nicholas K
Eric Nicholas K
3 years ago
You need to be careful here, as Secondary students do not learn the “factoring out of 2” part even though it’s more or less just indices.

That (1 - x/2) thingy is more for A Level when the powers are not positive integers.