How do you solve $x^2-10x=0$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2018-05-24T00:00:41

Solving $x^2-10x=0$ gives us $x=0,-10$

So we can solve $x^2-10x=0$ by factoring and finding the zeros to it.

So if we were to factor the left side, we can take out the Greatest Common factor which is an x which leaves us with

$x(x-10)=0$

So we already know one solution which $x=0$ because the x outside of the parentheses give us a solution to this equation.

So we now set $x-10$ to 0 (like this: $x-10=0$ ) which is $x=10$ when we add 10 to both sides.

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