Re: Factor by Grouping
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- Subject: [mg96630] Re: Factor by Grouping
- From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 04:20:54 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: Uni Leipzig
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- Reply-to: kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de
Hi, Factor[4 + 7*x*y - 14 y - 2 x] Regards Jens PS: x*y and x y is not xy 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. > > > > >