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    Math Definitions -> F -> FOIL Method

 FOIL Method

A handy way to remember how to multiply two binomials.

It is the sum of:

mutilpying the First terms,
mutilpying the Outside terms,
mutilpying the Inside terms, and
mutilpying the Last terms

See: Binomial
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Multiplying Polynomials