Please include the steps that took you to get your answer. I am very confused on what to do with the 1/2.

First let's review how to expand this!

(ax+b)^2=a^2*x^2+2abx+a^2

In this case

(2x^2+1/2)^2=2^2*x^2+2*1/2*2x+(1/2)^2

=4x^2+2x+1/4

Done!

the answer is:

the answer is:

to solve the problem, we need to remember the quotient of power property, it's defined by the following relation:

if we have a quotienf of powers that have the same base, we need to keep the same base and subtract the exponent of the denominator power to the exponent of the numerator power.

so, we are given the expression:

then, calculating we have:

hence, the answer is:

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x is the total time in minutes for the free response

you are given number of questions as 15 - m and time per item as 8 minutes

to find x multiply the two givens together:

x = 8 * (15-m) = 8(15-m)