💡𝚂𝗆𝖺𝗋𝗍𝗆𝖺𝗇 𝙰𝗉𝗉𝗌📱

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  • “simplify” literally means to make the equation easier to understand

    Nope. It means to present it in the simplest way possible. e.g. 5/10=1/2.

    You are arguing that “expand and simplify” is the exact same thing as “simplify”

    No I’m not. I’m saying “expand and simplify” is a thing in all high school Maths textbooks, “factor and simplify” isn’t a thing in any of them.

    “Sometimes factoring is prudent” - if you’re trying to solve an equation, yes, but solving and simplifying aren’t the same thing. If I arrive at an answer of 5/10 then I have solved but not simplified. Sometimes it’s not even possible to simplify, because the answer is already in the simplest form possible, such as an answer of 1/2. I teach students when to recognise when something can be simplified and when it can’t. Your original contention was that the Term was already simplified, and it wasn’t.

    “And thanks for the downvotes.” - I downvote anything that is incorrect, just like a student would lose marks for same.






  • My stipulation was that the x-x term didn’t exist, such that the equation would be fully simplified

    And it STILL wouldn’t be simplified.

    “factor and simplify”

    Factorising is the opposite process to expanding, so no, there’s no such thing as “factor and simplify”.

    I would argue the result of that would be less simplified than the factored version. Eye of the beholder type thing.

    It’s a definition of Maths thing. Simplified answers don’t have brackets in them.



  • The variables a, b, c, and z must have a stated correlation

    They do! a is the pronumeral in the 1st factor, b is the pronumeral in the 2nd factor, c is the pronumeral in the 3rd factor - i.e. the first 3 terms in a sequence - and the nth factor has the pronumeral z, and you think that ISN’T stating a relationship between term t of the sequence and the t-th pronumeral? 😂

    “the series can only be inferred using the rules of the English language” - well, they haven’t used Greek letters for it, have they?? 😂