What is the product of 1/2 x - 1/4 and 5x^2 - 2x + 6? write your answer in standard form?

a) show your work

b) is the product of 1/2 x - 1/4 and 5x^2 - 2x + 6 equal to the product of 1/4 x - 1/2 and 5x^2 - 2x + 6?
explain your answer

in problems involving proportions, we can use cross products to test whether two ratios are equal and form a proportion. to find the cross products of a proportion, we multiply the outer terms, called the extremes, and the middle terms, called the means.

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