What is this and how do you solve it?

Question

5p(squared) + 18(p)(p)=p(3)(9)(10)(0) + p(p)4(6) + 5(squared) * 2(squared) + p(squared) =

what teh c**p is this? i dunno where 2 start

Answer 1

the first answer is right, it also looks like the teacher is trying to find out if you understand the word squared and what it looks like algebraically. (with letters) as well as executing operations and combining terms. unfortunately, for many, it is too much 'stuff' on the page. it just looks like what you said, c**p. this type of presentation is also meant to make you study the problem to make sense of it, but should be easy to solve once you figure out what you are suppose to do with it.  

Answer 2

5p² + 18(p)(p) + p(3)(9)(10)(0) + p(p)4(6) + 5² * 2² + p²

this looks like an excersize in order of operations and adding together like terms:

5p² + 18p² + 0 + 24p² + 25 * 4 + p²

5p² + 18p² + 24p² + 100 + p²

48p² + 100

Answer 3

to solve this first simply each term by multiplying the things together and then after thi collect like terms together i.e collect all the terms containing p^2 together and turn them into one term. likewise for p and the constants.

Answer 4

This is a test to see if you know how to combine like terms......

(p)(p) = p (Squared)

call "p(squared)" Z

5Z+18Z = 23Z = 23p(Squared)

p(3)(9)(10)(0) = 0

p(p)4(6)= 24p(squared)

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so that's..

23p(squared) + 24p(squared)..... so far

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+5(squared) = + 25.....

2(squared) = 4....

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It comes out to...       23p(squared) + 24p(squared)+ p(squared) + (25 + 4)

Which is....   29 + 48p(Squared)