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Alphabet Multiplication (Posted on 2002-11-21)

(a-x) (b-x) (c-x) (d-x)........(z-x)=????

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| Comment 14 of 26 |

the answer is 0 because if you consider the xth term, the term is (x-x) which equals 0 and therefore, the entire problem equals 0.

anything multiplied by zero is zero!!

Posted by Rebecca on 2002-12-05 12:47:11

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