#proof gcse question 16

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honest swallow
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summer furnace
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use difference of squares for this one like they tell you to

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so first find the square root of 3^8

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and once u find that

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you can factorize it

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so basically

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Write $(3^{8}-1)$ in the form of $a^2-b^2$ and then write it in $(a-b)(a+b)$