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Expand two brackets involving powers of $x$.
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", "advice": "To expand the brackets $\\simplify{({a[1]}x^{b[1]}+{a[2]}x^{b[2]})({a[3]}x^{b[3]}+{c[1]}x^{b[4]})}$ We first multiply all the terms in the left bracket by all the terms in the right bracket. This gives us
\n\\[\\var{a[1]}x^\\var{b[1]}\\times\\var{a[3]}x^\\var{b[3]}+\\var{a[1]}x^\\var{b[1]}\\times\\var{c[1]}x^\\var{b[4]}+\\var{a[2]}x^\\var{b[2]}\\times\\var{a[3]}x^\\var{b[3]}+\\var{a[2]}x^\\var{b[2]}\\times\\var{c[1]}x^\\var{b[4]}\\]
\nWe can then simplify to give us the final answer of
\n$\\simplify{{a[1]*a[3]}*x^{b[1]+b[3]}+{a[1]*c[1]}*x^{b[1]+b[4]}+{a[2]*a[3]}*x^{b[2]+b[3]}+{a[2]*c[1]}*x^{b[2]+b[4]}}.$
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$\\simplify{({a[1]}x^{b[1]}+{a[2]}x^{b[2]})({a[3]}x^{b[3]}+{c[1]}x^{b[4]})}=$[[0]]
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