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Question: Given that  f (x) = 3x2 – 2x 1, how do we find  f (t – 1)?
 

Yours Truly answers:
We replace each  
x  in the function with  t - 1  to have:

Note that the red parts are derived by using the formula  (a b)2 = a2 – 2ab + b2  by letting  a = t   and  b = 1. Namely,  (t – 1)2 = t2 – 2·t·1 + 12 = t2 – 2t + 1.

 
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