Which equals the product of (x – 3)(2x + 1)?

Use the distributive property: multiply each term in (x − 3) by each term in (2x + 1). This gives 2x² + x − 6x − 3. Combine the like terms x and −6x to get 2x² − 5x − 3, which is choice B.

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