How do you make it so that the simplify function displays the correct answer?

syms s

simplify((s+30)*(s^2-20*s+200))

^ This is the code that I have currently. Instead of simplifying the entire expression, Matlab is just returing the original expression back to me: (s + 30)*(s^2 - 20*s + 200). How can I change it so that the entire expression actually gets simplified?

Answer 1

[Steven Lord]

syms s
simplify((s+30)*(s^2-20*s+200))

ans = 

expand((s+30)*(s^2-20*s+200))

ans = 

Answer 2

[Walter Roberson]

(s^2 - 20*s + 200)

The roots of that are 10 +/- 10i . So that expression is already fully factorized to real coefficients, and what you got is already the simplest version, under quite reasonable meanings of "simplify".