LOL. Well, I spent a lot of time with math in school and acquired engineering degrees in college. I tutor high school students in the maths and physics so I get to "practice" and thus keep some skills reasonably active. :-)

Been doing software engineering for the last 20 years.

>I guess I should have paid closer attention in Algebra when it came to factoring. Hmmm, Maybe that's why I don't work for someone cool like "Northrop-Grumman" ;)
>
>>X*X + 20*X - 2400 = 0 can be factored to:
>>
>>( X + 60 ) * ( X - 40 ) = 0
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>>So X = 40 or X = -60
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>>Bill
>>
>>>Now I'm really confused because I know X=40 so...?
>>>
>>>>>How do you solve for x in the equation X*(X+20)=2400
>>>>>
>>>>>Thanks
>>>>>Jon
>>>>
>>>>X*(X+20)=2400
>>>>X*X + 20*X = 2400
>>>>X*X + 20*X - 2400 = 0
>>>>And that is a typical Quadratic equation :-)
>>>>
>>>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadratic_equation