What`s the product?
Math brain teasers require computations to solve.
(a-x)(b-x)(c-x) ... (z-x) = ?
Answer
0
One of the terms is (x-x) which equals 0. Anything times 0 is 0.
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Comments
nirvanaman26
Jun 27, 2002
| nice. didn't see x-x coming |
arij 
Jul 06, 2002
| that's a cheating of a very good teaser present in this site. |
darthforman
May 28, 2005
|  I don't like math. BUt ok anyway.
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MAroxmysoxonice 
Nov 03, 2005
| this teaser was AWESOME!!!!
i really liked it.
it was clever.
good going dude!!!!   |
peppamintp 
Nov 09, 2005
| Don't you need at least one number? |
Pop_Qla
Nov 13, 2005
| Clever! Didn't get it? |
Pop_Qla
Nov 13, 2005
| I forgot to say it was good |
hidentreasure
Dec 07, 2005
| I got it.  |
stephiesd
Dec 15, 2005
| This came striaght off a MindTrap Card. i still missed it though.
stupid algebra 2. they teach you to think outside the box. |
trickyone
Jan 07, 2006
| Nice teaser  couldn't get it though. |
horse_luver
Jan 18, 2006
| darthforman: If you don't like math, what are you doing in this section? Cute teaser, didn't occur to me right away. |
keveffect1
Feb 22, 2006
| good one |
paul726
Mar 03, 2006
| This should almost be in the trick catagory. It was simple enough, but you got me. Very nice! |
TehIgnored
Mar 14, 2006
| no trick...you just had to think it through.....
i got it....mainly because my mind went immediately to the point...x-x....
good one! |
Vigo95
Mar 23, 2006
| very good . i loved it . i didn't even try to see where they were going with it .  |
jj_is_cool
Mar 30, 2006
| z-x? ther is no x-x |
Crazycriely
Apr 05, 2006
| nouice |
brainjuice
Apr 13, 2006
| simple n fun .. like it ..  |
zanyb13
Apr 14, 2006
| Wow! I was trying to find a pattern, scribbling stuff out a couple times, adding like terms.... woops!
Very cool, and I agree with paul's comment, this would be equally at home in the tricks section. |
tonjawithaj
Apr 14, 2006
| d'oh!  |
speedywheels
Apr 21, 2006
| Duh. i should've known. |
blonde_genius
Apr 30, 2006
| this was great. i love math and it went right over my head.... |
Waluigi
Jun 02, 2006
| That was different and tricky. Nice job. |
Unraveled
Jun 13, 2006
| Ah, tricky tricky, eh? Nice one, didn't get it, though. |
mbhpatrick
Jun 27, 2006
| wow....good job loved it!!!! very neat...didn't see the (x-x) comin'...maybe i should tell my math teacher 'bout it....eh?? well LOVE IT!! make more like that!!! |
josty
Aug 15, 2006
| that was smart, to make it a no thinking required problem where most people will think |
rrn0rrnrrnY
Sep 09, 2006
| Very creative and good. I agree that because only x-x is the equation it would make a better trick, but I got it and liked it |
dimez_00
Oct 27, 2006
| i was actually about to times everything out. i'm glad i stopped at c and looked at the answer. this is a really good teaser |
Stormcrafter
Nov 07, 2006
| If it were me I'd have placed it in trick!
But very tricky
*adds to favourites* |
elu93
Nov 30, 2006
| The answer should have been obvious to me! *smack forehead* Nice teaser! |
hj13lvu
Dec 17, 2006
| huh?i didn't get it at all nice work |
starrychelx
Feb 13, 2007
| Ooh, that was a good one! I didn't get it, but the answer made me slap myself in the forehead (which looked really dumb to the people walking by my desk!) |
amn22492
May 18, 2007
| that was a good one |
kwelchans
Nov 09, 2007
| This was a bonus question on a pre-calc test I took in high school. I got it right back then. I started to multiply it out, but then I thought "wait, what happens when you get to x-x?" Then I got it. |
RomanG417
Jul 28, 2009
| This would have been way too easy had it been in the trick category. People would be looking for the trick. In the math category people give up after the first few letters. I really liked it. |
Waka 
Jan 08, 2011
| I'm not good at math but I solved it. It was pretty creative. |
SRB_1807 
Aug 17, 2011
| nice ....good one ...  |
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