Following the guidelines of the CTE, pretend that you were calculating the above expression step-by-step. You could then use the following procedure:

1. Compute the quantities (2x-5)-1 and (x2+3x-1)-1.5.
2. Multiply the two answers.

Since the last operation you would perform is multiplying two numbers, the CTE tells us that the given expression is a product.


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