Please answer this maths question?

United States
April 13, 2007 10:33am CST
(x-a)*(x-B)*(x-c)*(x-d)*(x-e)*..............(x-Z)=? I will answer to your response after I will receive some answers?
6 responses
@s0505267 (26)
• China
14 Apr 07
I agree with vesuvius,the result of this question is diffculty, its result includes x,x^2,x^3,x^4....... but I think the procedure of working out the question is not very difficulty.
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• United States
16 Apr 07
You're not right but it doesn't mean that you're bad in maths. I may be because you're not in mood. Sometimes our presence of mind depend on moods.
@vesuvius (1677)
• Philippines
13 Apr 07
This is one very difficult math problem and I cant give you a complete answer just like a breeze. But doing parts of it mentally, I think I have every reason to believe that the first term of the polynomial is x^26 and the last term is the constant abcd...z. There might also be a term that has a numerical coefficient (a+b+c+...+z) - but I'm not very sure, Im just basing it on the mathematical patterns of common polynomials. Have I said anything correct?
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@Dana5881 (609)
• United States
13 Apr 07
See my answer above. Answer is 0.
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@lizeri (533)
• Philippines
14 Apr 07
no need to compute. The answer is 0.
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@samrat16 (2442)
• India
14 Apr 07
0. At one point in the process, you have x-x, which equals 0, and ANYTHING times 0, of course, is 0.
@Dana5881 (609)
• United States
13 Apr 07
What kind of answer do you need? Do you need to solve for x or what. Is that the only information the problem gives you?
@Dana5881 (609)
• United States
13 Apr 07
I figured it out. Answer is 0 because eventually you multiply by (x-x) which is 0. Hope this helps.
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• United States
16 Apr 07
Hi , You're right . Answer is zero as (x-x)=0 and any thing multiplied by 0 is 0.
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• India
15 Apr 07
its 0since you have x-x term
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