Thread: Symplify

Hi!
I would like to know if there is any shortcut to the given statement:

(a-x)(b-x).......(z-x)

Solving it by opening all the parentheses is not, according to me, a very sensible thing to do here.
Any other rule which can be applied to simplify it?

Thanks a Lot!
~MoniMini

Originally Posted by MoniMini

Hi!
I would like to know if there is any shortcut to the given statement:
(a-x)(b-x).......(z-x)
Solving it by opening all the parentheses is not, according to me, a very sensible thing to do here.
Any other rule which can be applied to simplify it?

Would be one of the factors?

Ummm.....Well....how??
I'm not really understanding this.
I've already gone on Google and searched this, all the answers say is that (x -x) is the factor, but I don't really
understand how....

Originally Posted by MoniMini

Ummm.....Well....how??
I'm not really understanding this.
I've already gone on Google and searched this, all the answers say is that (x -x) is the factor, but I don't really understand how....

Look at the pattern:
times, times, times, until we get to times.

Okay, so what?
(I'm sorry if you're if you feel I'm annoying you but this is not from my school course, just a question which popped out from some higher-class book, and it really intrigues me)

Anyways, thanks

Originally Posted by MoniMini

Okay, so what?
(I'm sorry if you're if you feel I'm annoying you but this is not from my school course, just a question which popped out from some higher-class book, and it really intrigues me)

The answer is . That because so times the rest is .

Uh-Oh....
I can understand that but I don't understand why the factor is (x-x).

Go through the alphabet. Surely you'll get to x if you go a, b, c, d, ...

Of course, this is assuming that you're using the symbol x from the alphabet to represent the same thing as the variable x in the statement, which it is quite likely you are not... But if that wasn't the case it would not be so easy to solve.

Aaaah! How silly I am!! Hehehe. I got it now :P