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Elmer Beatty
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Triple brackets are like every other number of brackets:
Every term in each bracket needs to be multiplied with every term in other brackets.
Specifically in case of triple brackets, the simplest way is to choose one of the brackets and write its terms as multipliers of the remaining two brackets.
Example:
(x+1)(x+2)(x+3) = x(x+2)(x+3) + 1(x+2)(x+3) = x(x²+5x+6) + 1(x²+5x+6) =
=x³ + 5x² + 6x + x² + 5x + 6 = x³ + 6x² + 11x + 6
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