Re: Factor by Grouping
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- Subject: [mg96629] Re: Factor by Grouping
- From: dh <dh at metrohm.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 04:20:44 -0500 (EST)
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Hi, if you write "xy" Mathematica can not know that you mean the product x y and not the variable xy. To factor there is (you guess) the function "Factor" that does the job nicely. hope this helps, Daniel magnum wrote: > I am new to Mathmatica. I am trying to learn how to factor monomials and polynomials and at the same time learn Mathematica. How to I factoa equation such as > > 4+7xy-14y-2x > > I need to group to (x-2)(7y-2). > > Should be easy I think, but I can't actually figure out what the correct sequence would be. > > > > >