What is f(x) + f(x) + f(x)?

The expression adds the same quantity, f(x), three times. Repeated addition is multiplication, so f(x) + f(x) + f(x) = 3f(x). The correct choice is 3f(x), not (f(x))³, which would mean multiplying f(x) by itself three times.

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