SOLUTION: How do you use the distributive property?
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: How do you use the distributive property?
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How do you use the distributive property?
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You use it to distribute multiplication over addition as follows:
a*(b+c)= a*b+a*c
See how the * is distributed.
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You use is when you factor:
ab+ac = a(b+c)
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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