The method in which you do this problem would be to FOIL. First Outer Inner Last. You take the first terms and multiply them. x*x = x^2 (x to the second power). Then you do it with the rest of foil. x*x = x^2 x*1 = x x*3 = 3x 1*3 = 3 x^2 + x + 3x + 3 = X^2 + 4x + 3
