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#1 2006-10-03 03:34:58

runlemmingsrun1
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simplify..

Please help simplify the expression:

      X5*X7
   

      THANKS..

#2 2006-10-03 03:50:03

polylog
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Registered: 2006-09-28
Posts: 162

Re: simplify..

I assume you mean:

and not:

If you mean the first one, then the answer is:

If you mean the second one, there is no further way to simplify it.

If you want to know why this is so, just ask.

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#3 2006-10-03 03:52:22

Jai Ganesh
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Registered: 2005-06-28
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Re: simplify..

polylog is correct.
For a list of formulas in exponents, please refer the formulas section.


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#4 2006-10-03 10:37:53

All_Is_Number
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Registered: 2006-07-10
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Re: simplify..

runlemmingsrun1 wrote:

Please help simplify the expression:

      X5*X7
   

      THANKS..

Once again my first interpretation of a problem was different than Polylog's.

I read: (X*5)*(X*7), which equals 35*X^2.


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#5 2006-10-03 11:07:58

runlemmingsrun1
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Re: simplify..

Yes I'm quite sure it is the first interpretation that is correct,,I'm doing the course online and often can not clarify such things ...sorry

#6 2006-10-03 15:07:28

runlemmingsrun1
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Re: simplify..

Sorry could not find the formula section..so here is another one that needs to be solved:

    Z10/Z11

   Thanks

#7 2006-10-03 15:19:25

Ricky
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Registered: 2005-12-04
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Re: simplify..


"In the real world, this would be a problem.  But in mathematics, we can just define a place where this problem doesn't exist.  So we'll go ahead and do that now..."

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