The Mistake Fragment

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The Correction

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An Explanation

The expression cannot be simplified by multiplying the coefficients of y²; instead the coefficients must be added, since we must factor out the common y² from the sum. (Factoring in this way is the reverse of distributing multiplication over addition.)