1. 8-8 Special Products Objective: Students will be able to use special product patterns to multiply polynomials.

2. In the example below, what are we multiplying? Knowing that, try this example…

3. In the example, we are taking the quantity (x+2) and multiplying it by itself.

4. Example 1: Find each product. 1)2) Try these.3)4)

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6. Try this. 6)

7. Now let’s look at the product of two binomials that are the sum and difference of the same terms. What happens when we multiply these two binomials:

8. Example 2: Find each product. 1)2)

9. Try these. 3)4)