What is Expanding and Simplifying?? EASY 10 POINTS!?

Question

What does expanding and simplifying mean??

What does factoring mean??

Answer 1

Expanding= 12923 converts into twelve thousand, ninehundred twenty three.

Simplifying= 23x 3 --->  69

Factoring--->  24= 6x4=3x2x2x2x2

Answer 2

Expanding and simplifying means to multiply out the brackets and bring like terms together. eg (x+1)(x-1) = x^2 - x + x - 1 = x^2 - 1

Factoring (otherwise known as factorising) is when a sum (or difference) is to be changed into a PRODUCT - a factor is a component of a product so to have factors we must have a product.