Question

A rectangle has a length of (6x+1) units and a width of (3x+1 units. Express the area of the rectangle as trinomial. Please I really need help and my tutor didn’t help. Please explain the work u did

Answer 1

whenever you have say a multiplication of a binomial or any polynomial, you can simply multiply each term of one by the other's terms, namely

(a+b)*(c+d+e)  => a(c+d+e) + b(c+d+e), and then add like-terms.

$\bf \stackrel{length}{(6x+1)}\stackrel{width}{(3x+1)}\implies 6x(3x+1)+1(3x+1)\implies (18x^2+6x)~~+~~(3x+1) \\\\\\ 18x^2+6x+3x+1\implies \stackrel{\textit{adding like-terms}}{18x^2+9x+1}$