Activity Sheet in Mathematics 7

Quarter 2- Week 6

Name: _______________________________Grade level & Section: _________________

School: _______________________________Date: ______________________________
Teacher: ______________________________Score: _____________________________

I. Title: Special Products

II. Learning Competency:

Uses models and algebraic methods to find the:
(a) product of two binomials
(b) product of a sum and difference of two terms
(c) square of a binomial
(d) cube of a binomial
(e) product of a binomial and a trinomial(M7AL-Iie-g-1-2nd Quarter-Week 6)

III. Instruction
This activity sheet focuses on the special products. Below are the activities with
regard to this topic. Read the directions of every activity and answer what is asked.

IV. Activities

A. Product of two binomials

Lesson Guide 1.
Prepare three sets of algebra tiles by cutting them out from a page of newspaper or
art paper. If you are using newspaper, color the tiles from the first set black, the second set
red and the third set yellow.

Examples:

Problem 1:
1. What is the area of a square whose sides are 2cm?
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2. What is the area of a rectangle with a length of 3cm and a width of 2cm?
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3. Demonstrate the area of the figures using algebra tiles.

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Solution:
1. 2 cm x 2 cm = 4 c m2
2. 3 cm x 2 cm=6 c m2
3.

Problem 2:
1. What are the areas of the different kinds of algebra tiles?
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2. Form a rectangle with a length of x + 2 and a width of x + 1 using the algebra tiles.
What is the area of the rectangle?
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3. Demonstrate the area of the figures using algebra tiles.

Solution:
1. x 2 , x∧1 square units .

2. The area is the sum of all the areas of the algebra tiles.
Area = x 2 ,+ x + x + x+ 1+ 1=x 2+ 3 x +2

Problem 3:
1. Use algebra tiles to find the product of the following:
a. ( x +2)( x+3)
b. (2x + 1)(x + 4)
c. (2x + 1)(2x + 3)
2. How can you represent the difference x−1 using algebra tiles?

Solution:
1.
a. x 2+ 5 x +6
b. 2 x2 +9 x +4
c. 4 x2 +8 x +3
2. You should use black tiles to denote addition and gray tiles to denote subtraction.

Problem 4:
1. Use algebra tiles to find the product of the following:
a. ( x−1)( x−2)
b. (2 x−1)( x −1)
c. ( x−2)(x +3)
d. (2 x−1)( x + 4)

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Solution:

1. x 2−3 x+ 2
2. 2 x2 −3 x +1
3. x 2+ x−6
4. 2 x2 +7 x−4

Activity 1.
1. Using the concept learned in algebra tiles what is the area of the rectangle shown
below?

a b
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c

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d

2. Derive a general formula for the product of two binomials (a+ b)(c +d ).

Lesson Guide 2.
The area of the rectangle is equivalent to the product of a+ b , c+ d , which is
ac +ad +bc +ad . This is the general formula for the product of two binomials ( a+ b ) ( c+ d ) .
This general form is sometimes called the FOIL method where the letters of FOIL stand for
first, outside, inside, and last.
Example: Find the product of ( x +3)(x+5)
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( x +3)(x+5)
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First: x ∙ x=x 2
Outside: x ∙ 5=5 x
Inner: 3 ∙ x =3 x
Last: 3 ∙5=15
( x +3 ) ( x +5 ) =x 2+5 x +3 x+15=x 2+ 8 x +15
Activity 2.
Directions: Find the product using the FOIL method. Write your answers on the spaces
provided.

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1. ( x +2 )( x +7 ) =¿ ¿
2. ( x +4 )( x +8 )=¿ ¿
3. ( x−2 ) ( x−4 ) =¿ ¿
4. ( x−5 ) ( x+ 1 )=¿ ¿
5. ( 2 x+3 )( x +5 ) =¿ ¿
6. ( 3 x−2 ) ( 4 x +1 ) =¿ ¿
7. ( x 2 +4 ) ( 2 x−1 ) =¿ ¿
8. ( 5 x 3+ 2 x ) ( x 2−5 ) =¿ ¿
9. ( 4 x+3 y ) ( 2 x + y ) =¿ ¿
10. ( 7 x−8 y ) ( 3 x +5 y ) =¿ ¿

B. Product of a sum and difference of two terms

Activity 3.

1. Use algebra tiles to find the product of the following:

a. ( x +1)( x −1)
b. ( x +3)( x−3)
c. (2 x−1)( 2 x +1)
d. (2x – 3) (2x + 3)
2. Use the FOIL method to find the products of the above numbers
Questions to Ponder
1. What are the products?
a.
b.
c.
d.
2. What is the common characteristic of the factors in the activity?
3. Is there a pattern for the products for these kinds of factors? Give the rule.

Lesson Guide 3
Concepts to Remember
The factors in the activity are called the sum and difference of two terms.
Each binomial factor is made up of two terms. One factor is the sum of the terms and the
other factor being their difference. The general form is ( a+ b ) ( a−b ) .
The product of the sum and difference of two terms is given by the general
formula ( a+ b ) ( a−b )=a 2−b2 .

Activity 4.
Find the product of each of the following:
1.( x−5 ) ( x+ 5 )=¿ ¿
2.( x +2 )( x−2 )=¿ ¿
3. ( 3 x−1 ) (3 x +1 ) =¿ ¿
4. ( 2 x+3 )( 2 x−3 ) =¿ ¿
5. ( x + y 2 ) ( x− y 2 ) =¿ ¿
6. ( x 2−10 ) ( x 2 +10 ) =¿ ¿
7. ( 4 xy +3 z3 ) ( 4 xy−3 x 3 ) =¿ ¿
8. ( 3 x 3−4 ) ( 3 x 3+ 4 )=¿ ¿
9. [ ( x+ y )−1 ] [ ( x + y ) +1 ] =¿ ¿

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 10. 2 x+ y −z ¿ (2 x + y + z)=¿ ¿
C. Square of a binomial

Activity 5

1. Using algebra tiles, find the product of the following:

a. ( x +3)( x+3)
b. ( x−2 ) ( x−2 )
c. (2 x+1)(2 x+1)
d. (2 x−1)(2 x−1)
2. Use the FOIL method to find their products.

Lesson Guide 4.
Concepts to Remember
The square of a binomial ( a ± b ¿ ¿2 is the product of a binomial when
multiplied to itself. The square of a binomial has a general formula, a ± b2=a2 ± 2 ab+b 2.

Activity 6.
Find the squares of the following binomials.
1. ¿
2. ¿
3. ¿
4. ¿
5. ¿
6. ¿
7. ¿
8. ¿
9. ¿
10. ¿

D. Cube of a binomial

Lesson Guide 5.

A. The cube of the binomial ( x +1 ) can be expressed as ¿. This equivalent to

( x +1 )( x +1 ) ( x +1).
1. Show that ¿.
2. How are you going to use the above expression to find ¿?
3. What is the expanded form of ¿?

Answers:
1. By using special products for the square of a binomial, we can show that ¿.
2. ¿
3. ¿

Concepts to Remember
The cube of a binomial has the general form, ¿.

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Activity 7.
Expand.

1. ¿ 6. ¿
2. ¿ 7. ( x 2−1 ¿3
3. ¿ 8. ¿
4. ¿ 9. ¿
5. ¿ 10. ¿
E. Product of a binomial and a trinomial

Lesson Guide 6

In the previous activity, we have tried multiplying a trinomial with a binomial. The
resulting product then had four terms. But, the product of a trinomial and a binomial does not
always give a product of four terms.
1. Find the product of x 2−x +1 and x +1
2. How many terms are in the product?
3. What trinomial should be multiplied to to x−1 get x 3−1 ?
4. Is there a trinomial that can be multiplied to x – 1 to get x 3+ 1?
5. Using the methods outlined in the previous problems, what should be multiplied to
x + 2 to get x 3+ 8 ? Multiplied to x – 3 to get x 3−27 ?

Concepts to Remember

The product of a trinomial and a binomial can be expressed as the sum or difference of two
cubes if they are in the following form.
( a 2−ab+ b2 ) ( a+b )=a3 +b 3
( a 2+ ab+b 2) ( a−b )=a3 −b3
Activity 8.

A. Find the product

1) ( x 2−3 x+ 9)(x+3)
2) ( x 2+ 4 x +16)(x−4)
3) ( x 2−6 x +36)( x+ 6)
4) ( x 2+ 10 x +100)( x−10)
5) ( 4 x 2+10 x +25)(2 x−5)

B. What should be multiplied to the following to get a sum/ difference of two cubes?
Give the product.
1) ( x−7)
2) ( x +8)
3) ( 4 x+1)
4) (5 x−3)
5) ( x ¿¿ 2+2 x + 4)¿

V. Closure
You learned plenty of special products and techniques in solving problems that
require special products.

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 Prepared by:

MARY ANN D, DEMILLO

Teacher I (San Isidro National High School)

Answer Key:

Activity 1.
1. A=LW
A=(a+ b)(c +d )
A=ac+ ad +bc+ ad
2. ( a+ b ) ( c+ d )=ac +ad +bc +ad
Activity 2.
1. x 2+ 9 x+14 6. 12 x2 +8 x +15
2. x 2+ 12 x +32 7. 2 x3 −x 2+8 x−4
3. x 2−6 x +8 8. 5 x 5−23 x3 −10 x
4. x 2−4 x−5 9. 8 x 2+ 10 xy +3 y 2
5. 2 x2 +8 x−4 10. 21 x2 +11 xy −40 y 2
Activity 3.

2. 1.Questions to Ponder
a) x 2−1
b) x 2−9
c) 4 x2 −1
d) x 2−1
2. first term and last term
3. Yes, squaring the difference of the first term and the last term.
Activity 4.
1. x 2−25 6. x 4 −100
2. x 2−4 7. 16 x 2 y 2−9 z 6
3. 9 x 2−1 8. 9 x 6−16
4. 4 x2 −9 9. ¿
5. x 2− y 4 10. ¿
Activity 5.
2.
a) x 2+ 6 x+ 9
b) x 2−4 x+ 4
c) 4 x2 + 4 x+ 1
d) 4 x2 −4 x +1
Activity 6.
1. x 2+ 10 x +25 6. 9 x 2−12 x+ 4
2. x 2−10 x+ 25 7. 16−40 x +25 x2
3. x 2+ 8 x+16 8. 1+18 x+ 81 x 2
4. x 2−8 x +16 9. x 4 +6 2
7 x y+9 y
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4 x2 +12 x+ 9 10. 9 x −24 x y + 16 y 4

6 3 2
5.
Activity 7.
1. x 3+ 15 x 2 +75 x+125 6. 27 x 3−54 x 2 +36 x−8
3 2 6 4 2
References:
K – 12 Learner’s Material in Mathematics 7, pages 145 – 151.