MathematicsCode 4024
Algebraic manipulation
What this topic asks you to be able to do
- Simplify an expression by grouping its like terms together.
- Expand the product formed when algebraic expressions are multiplied.
- Factorise by finding the common factors of the terms and taking them out.
- Factorise expressions in any of these forms: ax + bx + kay + kby, or a2x2 − b2y2, or a2 + 2ab + b2, or ax2 + bx + c, or ax3 + bx2 + cx.
- Complete the square on expressions written as ax2 + bx + c.