Joy Foo Jia Ei's answer to Ram's Secondary 2 Maths Singapore question.

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Joy Foo Jia Ei
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Eric Nicholas K
Eric Nicholas K
2 years ago
The third last line to the second last line is incorrect.

In general, for expressions of the form ab + cd (ie all four terms a, b, c and d are distinct from one another), they cannot be factorised into (a + c) (b + d).