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2013 × 2014 2013 × 1392 2014 1392 = ? \large \frac{ \color{#20A900}{2013} \times \color{#3D99F6}{2014} -\color{#20A900}{2013} \times \color{#D61F06}{1392}} { \color{#3D99F6}{2014} - \color{#D61F06}{1392} }= \ \color{#624F41} ?


The answer is 2013.

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39 solutions

Sharky Kesa
Jul 9, 2014

2013 × 2014 2013 × 1392 2014 1392 = x \dfrac {2013 \times 2014 - 2013 \times 1392}{2014 - 1392} = x

2013 × ( 2014 1392 ) 2014 1392 = x \dfrac {2013 \times (2014 - 1392)}{2014 - 1392} = x

2013 = x 2013 = x

Come on! The answer is so "last year"! :-)

Rajendran Dandapani - 6 years, 11 months ago

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3 years ago :)

Dedzy H - 5 years, 5 months ago

2 years ago, technically. :P

Sharky Kesa - 5 years, 9 months ago

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Not when he said it 👅😜😛

Hannah Baker - 5 years, 7 months ago

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@Hannah Baker Good eye..

Giancarlo Vera - 5 years, 7 months ago

Well guys , I did the same solution as Sharky Kesa. That was the shortcut. I mostly see the same solutions in this application.

Xylene resha terminio - 3 years, 10 months ago

I did it this way, (2013 2014)-(2013 1392)/(2014-1392) = (4054182-2802096)/622= 1252086/622=2013

T O - 4 years, 12 months ago

Lol. 3 years at this point

Casey Hyland - 5 years, 1 month ago

2 years ago

Kia-Leanne Daniels - 5 years, 6 months ago

(ab - ac)/(b-c) = [a(b - c)]/(b - c) here we can cancel (b - c) so we get 'a' ie 2013....

Dinesh MJ - 6 years, 10 months ago

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My solutions as well :)

Erik Neuhold - 5 years, 5 months ago

just a fraction :) 2013 * 2014 = 4054182 and 2013 * 1392 = 2802096 and 2014 - 1392 = 622 4054182 - 2802096 = 1252086 / 622 = 2013.

Albryne Jae Anapi - 6 years, 11 months ago

x=2013(2014-1392)/(2014-1392) x=2013

Mukhtar Ahmad - 6 years, 11 months ago

Nice question...!!

Guttu Jain - 5 years, 1 month ago

2013 × 2014 2013 × 1392 2014 1392 = 4054182 2802096 622 = 1252086 622 = 2013 Q u i t e E a s i l y D o n e . \frac { 2013\times 2014-2013\times 1392 }{ 2014-1392 } \\ =\quad \frac { 4054182-2802096 }{ 622 } \\ =\quad \frac { 1252086 }{ 622 } \\ =\quad \boxed { 2013 } \\ Quite\quad Easily\quad Done.\quad

:P

DPK ­ - 6 years, 10 months ago

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while it is equally correct, it is not really the best way to solve this..

Engelbert Eric - 6 years, 10 months ago

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"Best" is a subjective term in this context.

Haakon Svane - 4 years, 11 months ago

This is how I did it, but I think this is the hard way! Sharky Kesa has a nice clean solution. :)

Erika A - 5 years, 8 months ago

if you are not allow to use calculator...then your method will take more then 5 mint.haha

Sohail Khan - 5 years, 6 months ago

2005.790115

James Steward - 5 years, 6 months ago

Nice work Sharky Kesa, very well explained. I went the brute force, number crunching route even though I suspected a more simple and efficient strategy existed. Cheers!

Bruce Beck - 5 years, 1 month ago

wow what a solution

Prasham Aseri - 5 years ago

that was hard ):

Sharon Adelusi - 4 years, 11 months ago

420 upvotes and counting!!! Finally we hit the magic number!

Sharky Kesa - 4 years, 8 months ago

That makes total senese

Ryan Ng - 1 year, 7 months ago

That BEDMAS and the Laws of Exponents sure make life easier eh?

Gerald Dixon John Cummings - 5 years, 7 months ago

try (Ab-Ac)/(b-c)=A where b is not equal to c.

Sajjan Barnwal - 6 years, 10 months ago

Very simple, you may use Factoring.

Ranz Roy Flores - 6 years, 8 months ago

Why we hv taken 2013 as common?

Sriparna Ghosh - 6 years, 11 months ago

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Distributive property of multiplication.

Sharky Kesa - 6 years, 11 months ago

Because it is multiplied to both the terms in numerator.

Arvind Ghadigaonkar - 5 years, 9 months ago

Distributive property over multiplication

aaron akumalla - 6 years, 11 months ago

Because 2013 is in both multiply operation, Its like for example if you had

2 5 - 2 * 7/ 5-7 = 2 ( 5-7)/5-7 ......2*(-2)/-2 = 2

Sinne Dias - 5 years, 9 months ago
Saurabh Mallik
Jul 28, 2014

It's very simple.

According to the question:

= 2013 × 2014 2013 × 1392 2014 1392 = \frac{2013\times2014-2013\times1392}{2014-1392}

Taking 2013 2013 as common.

= 2013 ( 2014 1392 ) 2014 1392 = \frac{2013(2014-1392)}{2014-1392}

Cancelling ( 2014 1392 ) (2014-1392) , we get:

= 2013 = 2013

Thus, the answer is: 2013 × 2014 2013 × 1392 2014 1392 = 2013 \frac{2013\times2014-2013\times1392}{2014-1392}=\boxed{2013}

Thanks! I can't believe I didn't think of it before!!! Well, I was never a Maths girl, but I am trying (maturity allows us to open up to things we didn't use to before :)

Erika A - 5 years, 8 months ago

You can't take 2013 as common, because there is 2013 and -2013

EVi Joday - 4 years, 10 months ago

2013 * 2014 = 4054182

and

2013 * 1392 = 2802096

and

2014 - 1392 = 622

4054182 - 2802096 = 1252086 / 622 = 2013.

Daniel Bachelis
Nov 24, 2016

Your brain doesn't rearrange numbers really well, but it does variables really well. :-) So let's make them variables.

a ( a + 1 ) a b a + 1 b \frac{a(a+1)-ab}{a+1-b}

notice a a is in common, use distributive property.

a ( a + 1 b ) a + 1 b \frac{a(a+1-b)}{a+1-b}

they cancel, and you're left with a a

a = 2013 a = 2013

Xavier Guillaume
Aug 17, 2015

I figured it out this way, I don't know if it's right though, but it came up with the right answer. I took out the first 3 digits of each number and made the equation

( 3 x 4 - 3 x 2 ) / ( 4 - 2 ) = 3 Then I added the first 3 digits back to the number ending in 3 and got 2013.

Why you add 201 only why not 139??

YADAV Dhiraj - 4 years, 8 months ago
Vince Pantino
Jul 17, 2015

Let:
A = 2013
B = 2014
C = 1392
A × B A × C B 1392 = x \frac{{A}\times{B}-{A}\times{C}}{{B}-{1392}}=x
Using the Distributive Property of Multiplication
A × ( B C ) ( B C ) = x \frac{{A}\times{(B}-{C)}}{{(B}-{C)}}=x
We can cancel out (A-B)
x=A
A=2013
x=2013







Oon Han
Dec 9, 2018

Factoring the expression: 2013 × 2014 2013 × 1392 2014 1392 = 2013 ( 2014 1392 ) 2014 1392 = 2013 \begin{aligned} \frac{\textcolor{#20A900}{2013} \times \textcolor{#3D99F6}{2014} - \textcolor{#20A900}{2013} \times \textcolor{#D61F06}{1392}}{\textcolor{#3D99F6}{2014} - \textcolor{#D61F06}{1392}} &= \frac{\textcolor{#20A900}{2013}(\textcolor{#3D99F6}{2014} - \textcolor{#D61F06}{1392})}{\textcolor{#3D99F6}{2014} - \textcolor{#D61F06}{1392}} \\ &= \boxed{\textcolor{#20A900}{2013}} \end{aligned} Therefore, the answer is 2013 .

Mohammad Khaza
Jul 7, 2017

2013 x 2014 -2013 x 1392/2014 - 1392

=2013(2014-1392) / (2014-1392)

=2013

Anthony Lopez
Dec 22, 2016

a = 2013 b = 2014 c = 1392

(a b-a c)/b-c = (a(b-c))/b-c cancel b-c = a

Ans = a

no answer must be an integer

Ujjwal Mani Tripathi - 4 years, 3 months ago
Jinjie Zhang
Dec 20, 2020

Using the distributive property, 2013 × 2014 2013 × 1392 2014 1392 ) \frac{2013 \times 2014-2013 \times 1392}{2014-1392)} will become 2013 × ( 2014 1392 ) 2014 1392 \frac{2013 \times (2014-1392)}{2014-1392} . Let's say the unknown is y. After a bit of calculation, you can find out that y=2013.

Gia Hoàng Phạm
Sep 20, 2018

2013 × 2014 2013 × 1392 2014 1392 = 2013 ( 2014 1392 ) 2014 1392 = 2013 \frac{2013 \times 2014-2013 \times 1392}{2014-1392}=\frac{2013(2014-1392)}{2014-1392}=\boxed{\large{2013}}

Mike Jones
Dec 4, 2016

A simple case of factorising:

= 2013 ( 2014 - 1392 ) / (2014 - 1392 ) = 2013 / 1 = 2013

note: a bit naughty to not include brackets in the question. I wouldn't be happy if such a question was faced by a student in a GCSE exam without clear instruction of whether to treat it with BIDMAS or number machine value by value process.

Matt Callicott
Dec 3, 2016

Just factor and solve

Khushi Jain
Oct 22, 2016

2013 2014 2013 1392 2014 1392 \frac{2013*2014-2013*1392}{2014-1392} = 2013 ( 2014 1392 ) 2014 1392 \frac{2013(2014-1392)}{2014-1392} (by taking 2013 common in both equations) = 2013 622 622 \frac{2013*622}{622} (by cancelling numerator and denominator) = 2013

Shameer Deen
Aug 16, 2016

This looks confusing at first, but it is actually easier than you think.

2012 × 2014 2013 × 1392 2014 1392 2012 \times 2014 - 2013 \times 1392 \over 2014 - 1392

So, 2012 ( 2014 1392 ) 2014 1392 2012(2014-1392)\over 2014-1392

Cancel common terms and you'll end up with 2013.

Keep 2013 as "x".

So,

X * (x+1) - (x * (x-621) / (x+1) - (x-621)

(X^2 + x - X^2 + 621x) / (x + 1 - x + 621)

622x / 622

Then we are left with just "x", so the answer is X=2013.

Jàfąř Àāł
Jul 23, 2016

2013(2014-1392)/2014-1392=2013

Aravindhan Arava
Jul 19, 2016

See the denominator.... And take 2013 common.... Divide... U will get the solution

To simplify:

2013 × 2014 2013 × 1392 2014 1392 \frac{2013\times2014-2013\times1392}{2014-1392}

Taking common:

= 2013 ( 2014 1392 ) 2014 1392 =\frac{2013(2014-1392)}{2014-1392}

Let ( 2014 1392 ) (2014-1392) be x x .

Replacing ( 2014 1392 ) (2014-1392) with x x :

2013 x x \frac{2013x}{x}

Eliminating the x x s:

Final answer: 2013 \boxed{2013}

Refath Bari
Jul 3, 2016

Quite simple. Use variable substitution, as so!:

( 2013 × 2014 2013 × 1392 2014 1392 ) (\frac { 2013\times 2014-2013\times 1392 }{ 2014-1392 } )

Now, just replace each number with a variable, as follows: a = 2014 , b = 2013 , c = 1392 a=2014, b = 2013, c = 1392

Now, solve through simple substitution & simplifying the fraction: a b a c b c \frac { ab-ac }{ b-c }

When in doubt, factor it out ;) a ( b c ) ( b c ) \frac { a(b-c) }{ (b-c)}

One more step of canceling out the (b-c)s, and we're done!: a = 2014 \boxed{a = 2014}

Marcos Ardon
Jun 16, 2016

Just Cross out the same numbers from the top and bottom for example 2014 and 1392 which leaves you with 2013

Sandeep Sahoo
Jun 5, 2016

I did like this: Since some had same colour.. It can now become a b-a c/b-c Now divide it using division in algebraic method. And u will directly get (a) i.e 2013

Guilherme Almeida
May 30, 2016

(a b-a c)/(b-c) = (a*(b-c))/(b-c) = a

2013(2014-1493)/2014-1493= 2013

Kunwar Singh
Apr 4, 2016

2013(2014-1392)/2014-1392 equal to 2013*22/22 equal to 2012

Shabbir Mehta
Mar 18, 2016

Very simple

Komal Masood
Jan 28, 2016

. 2,013 x 2,014= 4,054,182

.2,013 x 1,392 = 2,802,096

.4,054,182 - 2,802,096 = 1,252,086

.2,014 - 1,392 = 622

.1,252,086 / 622 = 2013 answer

Mohamed Binzoo
Jan 1, 2016

Let a=2013 b=2014 c=1392 The equation becomes (ab-ac)/(b-c)=a (b-c)/(b-c)=a Substituting a, the answer is a=2013.

Sohail Khan
Dec 5, 2015

take 2013 common from numerator and cancel the remaning small bracket data by denumenator.....2013 will left...which is the answer of given question

It will be denominator,,, not denumenator @Sohail Khan

Sazzad Hossain Rafi - 4 years, 11 months ago
Saikiran Chinni
Oct 16, 2015

2013( 2014-1392)÷(2014-1392)=2013

Quah Zelene
Sep 28, 2015

Let 2013 be x. Let 2014 be y. Let 1392 be z.

(xy) - (xz)


  y - z

= x (y - z) (Bring x factor out)


   y - z

= x

Ans: x= 2013,, 😊

2013(2014-1392)/2014-1392= Note:get the common factor THen you can now cancelled out So, The answer is 2013

Nïkhïl Säï
Sep 4, 2015

Purely easy solution take out 2013 as common part in numerator then we get 2013(2014-1392) and now cancel numerator part n denominator part 2013(2014-1392)/(2014-1392)=2013 Simple :)

Tomo Sato
Aug 23, 2015

Factor out the 2013, and then you have the answer. Simple as that.

Ma Pm
Aug 16, 2015

(2013*(2014-1392))/(2014-1392)=2013

Junaid Ghazali
Aug 12, 2015

2013(2014-1392)/2014-1392

2013

Kanij Sharme
Aug 2, 2015

2013(2014-1392)/2014-1392=2013

Hadia Qadir
Jul 20, 2015

2013 is the right answer because all the same digit will cut and only 2013 will remain .

cancel out the same figures!

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