Nope. You gave me something to solve, as I already said. If I have x²-x and want to solve it, I use x(x-1) to find the roots - that isn't simplifying, that's solving.
that’s not a result, that’s it’s shitty AI response. I am talking about the actual search results.
Yep, it's an actual search result. Look underneath the AI part.
I'd use it to solve it, as per my previous comment on the difference between solving and simplifying.
So you're just ignoring Maths textbooks? Got it.
BTW in case you didn't know about this infamous Google result...
“simplify” literally means to make the equation easier to understand
Nope. It means to present it in the simplest way possible. e.g. 5/10=1/2.
You are arguing that “expand and simplify” is the exact same thing as “simplify”
No I'm not. I'm saying "expand and simplify" is a thing in all high school Maths textbooks, "factor and simplify" isn't a thing in any of them.
"Sometimes factoring is prudent" - if you're trying to solve an equation, yes, but solving and simplifying aren't the same thing. If I arrive at an answer of 5/10 then I have solved but not simplified. Sometimes it's not even possible to simplify, because the answer is already in the simplest form possible, such as an answer of 1/2. I teach students when to recognise when something can be simplified and when it can't. Your original contention was that the Term was already simplified, and it wasn't.
"And thanks for the downvotes." - I downvote anything that is incorrect, just like a student would lose marks for same.
Man you’re dense
Says person citing Google results instead of Maths textbooks! 😂
Are you a high school math teacher by chance?
Yep.
Because you’re using a rigid definition of simplify that I don’t necessarily agree with.
You don't agree with Maths textbooks? 😂
"And told you to simplify, what would you do?" - I would ask you what on Earth it's supposed to say, given it's formatted all weird! 😂
Related - I was teaching at a school where I wanted them to get some plagiarism tool. The charge was per student. It was a newish school with a lot of growth, and another new school was still being built nearby (not being put into service for another year or two), so the school had A LOT of students (nearly 2 school's worth), so, they couldn't afford it. I ended up having to manually copy some of my student's code and then Google it to see if they had copied it from anywhere (and yes, some of them had. BTW the most hilarious poor effort at trying to cheat was one who's code not only didn't even compile, but they hadn't even bothered changing the Imperial measurements to Metric! Didn't even need to Google that one - here's your letter to parents 😂).