Answer
$16x^2$
Work Step by Step
The student did not distribute the exponent to everything inside of parenthesis, since the four was not raised to the second power. Thus, the answer should be $16x^2$.
Algebra and Trigonometry 10th Edition
by Larson, Ron
Published by
Cengage Learning
ISBN 10:
9781337271172
ISBN 13:
978-1-33727-117-2
Appendix A - A Exercises - Page A6: 9
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